[AccessD] Searching M$'s KB

John W. Colby jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Fri Mar 7 12:42:00 CST 2003


MessageFlattery will get you everywhere.  ;-)

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com

  -----Original Message-----
  From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of William Hindman
  Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 7:20 AM
  To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
  Subject: Re: [AccessD] Searching M$'s KB


  ...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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