[AccessD] Searching M$'s KB

Message...and it is exactly that mix that makes this, for me at least, much more valuable than any other Access list or newsgroup ...its fairly well balanced between Access gurus and those with the level of experience I originally brought to the list ...not a day goes by that I don't learn something entirely new and useful in my work, or better yet, catch a glimpse of gurus exchanging salvos in debates that illuminate the Access landscape for all of us ...so as far as I'm concerned, bring it on ...the lurkers finally popping up with the thing that's stumped them for days ...or sages like JC asking questions that I don't even begin to understand until days later when I've absorbed the equivalent of a post-grad semester in database design.

William Hindman
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Wortz, Charles 
  To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com 
  Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 7:02 AM
  Subject: RE: [AccessD] Searching M$'s KB


  I have to respectively disagree with Susan and Arthur.  I don't mind answering a commonly asked question if the person seems to have put forth some effort to solve the problem.  But I do not like to have people come to the list as a first-ditch effort to ask common questions.

  The reason I stay active on this list is because there are a lot of difficult and/or unusual questions that pop up that help us all when we get to similar situations.  Susan has asked some questions that seemed very simple on the surface, but when people start to answer them it turned out that there were deeper meanings than most of us were aware of.
  Charles Wortz 
  Software Development Division 
  Texas Education Agency 
  1701 N. Congress Ave 
  Austin, TX 78701-1494 
  512-463-9493 
  CWortz at tea.state.tx.us 

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Arthur Fuller [mailto:artful at rogers.com] 
  Sent: Thursday 2003 Mar 06 16:28
  To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
  Subject: RE: [AccessD] Searching M$'s KB


  It's a first-ditch effort J



  -----Original Message-----
  From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins
  Sent: March 6, 2003 10:13 AM
  To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
  Subject: Re: [AccessD] Searching M$'s KB



  I know that at times I have told listers that the answer is in M$'s KB without giving an article number.  Sorry about that, but now you have no excuse for not looking it up yourself before asking the list.

    ==============I always come to the list when I find myself stuck. It's the first place I try. Not the KB, not the wide, wide, world of the web. Why? Because if there's an answer to be had, it is probably here. In fact, AccessD has been mentioned in two of my book acknowledgements. Why should anyone waste time spinning their wheels looking for something they might not find. Even if info is found, trying to apply it to what you're doing can be as much a problem as finding it! Especially the MK articles, because they're almost always out of date! 



    That just isn't very efficient. In our business, time is just as important as accuracy. 



    No one on this list should waste precious time looking up what someone here already knows. It doesn't make sense. This list is not a last ditch effort -- "I've looked everywhere else..." 



    Susan H. 
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