[AccessD] Moderator Message

Why is dial up an issue?
I am on mobile which  is slower than dial up.  Unless you are referring to
costs, in which case dial up probably would be a factor.
Whilst holding my hands up to the crime of getting carried away in the OT
discussion, I have two points of view. 

One is that I do enjoy the camaraderie that exists which in turn engenders
the spirit of helping and assistance to others and from this aspect I am
happy for ANYTHING which is IT related but not for stuff outside of IT - OT
List is the place for that.

The second is that if I were a NEWBIE looking to join a well informed list I
*might* be put off by all the non-Access chatter.  Particularly as we are
without a decent Search Engine for postings.

I can see both sides of the fence, so to speak.  Sitting here is putting
splinters up my bum.

Even when stuff appears to be non-Access, it often exists hand in hand with
Access and other IT software deployment.  A case in point was all the stuff
over Virtual PCs and Security - all of which had a direct and real bearing
on my deployment of my Access FE and BE to make it more secure.  The stuff
over .Net etc is similarly influencing my Access stuff.

Personally, I would say 

1. Non-IT goes to OT.  
2. Any IT related matters should be allowed because many of them are short
lived.  But any Moderator can ask for it to be taken to dba-tech if it looks
like running.  Listers should just honour the request without argument and
move it over - as Lambert said, it is so easy to merge email lists at client
level it become almost transparent.
3. Encourage more to join to keep Access which is fore-front in RAD as per
Stuart's comment on his web site.

Max

Enough argument - off to the pub.



-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Carbonnell
Sent: 05 August 2009 18:27
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Moderator Message

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:55 PM, William
Hindman<wdhindman at dejpolsystems.com> wrote:

> ...as one of those responsible for initially splitting the lists, I
remember
> that bandwidth was a major driver since so many of our members were still
on
> dial up ...splitting the lists allowed them to get only the Access related
> posts without having to dl the rest over 56kb connections.
>
> ...that is no longer the case

Maybe it is the case. Maybe not, I don't know.

What I do know is there are still some of our more frequent
contributors that are still on dial-up.