Andy Lacey
andy at minstersystems.co.uk
Fri Jul 9 04:36:26 CDT 2010
It's a well kept secret that many of us have actually moved into a secret nursing home together. Here we lie, in adjacent beds, swapping stories of early computers, programming in Assembler, Access version 2, and so on. The food's crap but the wifi's terrific so from time to time we have a bit of fun by going on AccessD, founded by our forefathers, throwing in a question and all having a go at answering it. If we're really bored we shout "unbound" at JC. It keeps us amused. So, old boys, yes. Pathetic, undoubtedly, but we'll hang around until the grim reaper (or Bill Gates) gets us. Matron, pass the bed pan! -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of rockysmolin at bchacc.com Sent: 09 July 2010 07:16 To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [AccessD] Just ANother Old Boys Club Rumors of our death are greatly exaggerated. Rocky Original Message: ----------------- From: Tony Septav iggy at nanaimo.ark.com Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:54:44 -0700 To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [AccessD] Just ANother Old Boys Club My Friend You insult me. This is no longer a user group, no matter what you have to say. This was one of the most vibrant groups I have ever dealt with. A community willing to express their opions on every topic. It has gotten to be just the old boys, disussing topics of no relevance to ACCESS programmng. I think it is indicating a demise of the Access community. Gary Kjos wrote: >And most of us have kind of moved on from straight Access Development >like we did years ago. But we do still answer them when they are asked >most of the time. You might have to wait a day or two sometimes. > >I kind of do take exception to your attempt to put some guilt on list >members for not doing..... not sure what. > >I have a real job. I have a life. I give my time to the list as an >administrator. I answer the questions when I can. I'm not sure what >more you expect Tony. I think the number of new users of Access is >probably a lot less than it used to be, especially as Excel has had >it's limits raised over the most recent releases. Used to be that >people were forced to use Access for things when they hit the 65K row >limit in an Excel file. Now that bar is raised over a million rows so >the user community sticks with Excel for those things. > >Sorry you feel like we aren't living up to your expectations but we >are doing what we can. > > >GK > >On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Drew Wutka <DWUTKA at marlow.com> wrote: > > >>Well toss us a question!!! >> >>Drew >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tony Septav >>Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 2:02 PM >>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving >>Subject: [AccessD] Just ANother Old Boys Club >> >>Hey All >>I have been on this list for more years than I can remember (since >>19930. It has now become an old boys list. Pretty pathethic, I don't >>see any respones to new questions, basically just chatter and respones >>from the old members (back and forth). Yes , you are going to being >>saying "If you don't like leave".. And probably I will. With the amount >>of knowledge available here it is a crime to waste it. Shane on you. >>-- >>AccessD mailing list >> >> > > > > > > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com - What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com