[AccessD] Just ANother Old Boys Club

ROTFL.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Andy Lacey wrote:
> 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.
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