Lembit Soobik
Lembit.Soobik at t-online.de
Mon Mar 10 08:23:00 CST 2003
MessageCharles,
- this is the official answer to your question:
DBA does not require that a list member spends efforts to find the answer somewhere else before asking the list.
The AccessD list is intended to help Access users with any level of knowledge.
- If there are questions below your level of interest, or questions which you (or any other guru) simply dont want to answer, it is ok that you ignore these, but please refrain from any kind of negative or rude comment.
Thank you
Lembit
Lembit Soobik
----- Original Message -----
From: Wortz, Charles
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 1:02 PM
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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