[AccessD] From your friendly moderator

...kudos Andy ...I'm concerned that non-access topics are crowding the list 
to the point that visitors won't recognize it as a primary Access resource 
...the occasional thread is ok with me ...but its gone well past occasional 
the past week.

William Hindman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Lacey" <andy at minstersystems.co.uk>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 4:04 PM
Subject: [AccessD] From your friendly moderator


> We seem to have let our standards slip recently regarding posting topics 
> to
> the appropriate lists, and regarding cross-posting. Can I just remind
> everyone that we have a specific SQL-Server list, one for VB, one for 
> Visio,
> a dba-Tech list for other IT matters, and an OT list for non-IT matters 
> (see
> http://www.databaseadvisors.com/lists/whatandhow.asp )? Please make more 
> use
> of these other lists and try to limit AccessD to Access stuff. I know that
> AccessD is the main list, but SQLServer and VB particularly have many
> members and are specifically geared to answering questions on those 
> topics.
> If you have a question which belongs on one of the other lists I urge you 
> to
> please post it on the appropriate list first. If you don't get the 
> response
> you're after and believe that reposting to AccessD will help then of 
> course
> you're going to, but you should then append "(originally posted to 
> dba-xx)"
> to your subject. This will help people who have already seen the original.
> It may even encourage wider membership of the other lists. Please avoid 
> the
> scatter-gun approach of just posting the same question straight away to 
> all
> of the lists. This generates wasted bandwidth, is a particular irritant 
> for
> those on multiple lists and uses up storage in our archive. Many thanks 
> for
> your co-operation.
>
> -- Andy Lacey
> http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
>
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