[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 :-)

 

-----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Especially the MK articles, because they're almost always out of date!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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