[AccessD] Moderator Message

 As Dan Waters says, it's very easy to train your email client to 'merge' all the lists mail into one folder so you get the best of both worlds: lots of irrelevant emails mixed in with the occasional Access related one. :-)

Lambert

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 12:16 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Moderator Message

Back in the early days of AccessD, when I first started using Access, the list was like going to Access school every day.  Even if I had no application for the thread, I read it and learned a lot.

Into that mix, I got exposed to a lot of other 'stuff' - like Citrix, I'd never heard of it.  And info about hardware mostly as related to Access but sometimes just stuff I could use.  And stuff about Windows and updates and dlls, etc., etc. It was, as JC notes, a 'rich' text file.

I think it's OK to have the other lists.  But I don't want to monitor all of them. Merging everything back would be one solution.  Given the relatively low numbers of posts on the other lists, and the ready accessibility of the delete key, that would probably work. (except of course, BOD and owners)

But another compromise would be to loosen up on the Access-centric requirement for posts to AccessD.  The stuff that came through recently was, for sure OT.  Yet I read it with interest.  And learned some stuff.  And I think there's a gray area between Access and SQL.

It sounds like it might be a good reason to have a BOD meeting - maybe a shareholders?  Are we due for some corporate formalities? And talk about the policy we want.

In the mean time if the moderators will tolerate it, perhaps AccessD subscribers would like to weigh in on what they want for the list policy.
Perhaps put "List Policy" in the subject so we can sort those?

Rocky