[AccessD] Database Advisors lists

I won't - this is certainly one of the more civilised lists. Signal to 
noise ratio is waaaaay above the average.

On 19 Dec 2006 at 20:43, Steve Conklin wrote:

> No one has yet challenged this line:
> >>>>>>>> and without the ego trappings that you'll suffer from on other
> lists. >>>>>>>>
> Are you kidding me?
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow
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> Subject: [AccessD] Database Advisors lists
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> Dear accessd at databaseadvisors.com,
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> Isn't access-d a great list? We're the kind of community that actually
> works-we get the technical help we need free, and without the ego trappings
> that you'll suffer from on other lists. I know that I find the list
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> book together in 2002, and this is what appears in the book's
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> problem, it can't be solved." And she's right. That has been my experience
> with the list for the last seven years.
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Stuart