[AccessD] My Comments

LOL, and if you are answering off line, how do you know that there haven't been a hundred answers, 
all off line.

That is the entire point of the list, that everyone gets to see every answer.

I know that I don't answer many questions any more.  When I joined the list somewhere around 97 or 
so, I was trying to "make a name" and so I answered a lot, and I was also learning a lot.  Now I 
tend to send answers to my own questions where I have had to research obscure things.  Others who 
have less time on the list can answer the "how do I" questions that I have already answered a 
hundred times in the last 15 years.

Now if you want to know how to do classes, or handle events, or build a framework, start a thread 
and I will be there.  Or bind an Access FE to a SQL Server database over the internet using Hamachi.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 2/18/2012 9:50 PM, Tony Septav wrote:
> Hey Arthur, Stuart and Gary
> I apologize, points well taken. As I have said there are many individuals on
> this list that give their 2 cents worth on a problem whether they have a
> solution or not. And that is very valuable, it makes one stop and think
> about, "Okay how do I use this information I have gotten to solve this
> problem". When I said I respond "off line" it has usually been to
> individuals (mostly newbies) who do not seem to be receiving a response from
> the members on the list (and most of them eventually disappear). And that is
> what makes mad and why I call this list an "old boys/girls club". Many times
> these individuals were looking for an answer and basically they were ignored
> while the "club" was discussing some esoteric concept (Oh! I will get flamed
> for that comment). Sorry if I have offended any one's feelings. This is
> first and foremost an MSAccess user group, if it is no longer that then
> change the name.
>
> Tony Septav
> Nanaimo, BC
> Canada
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 6:17 PM
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> Subject: Re: [AccessD] My Comments
>
> OK, Tony, point taken. But IMO any question worth posting may have been at
> least mentally asked by 1000 other listers, and therefore the answer ought
> to be available to them. Just my $2 (accounting for inflation).
>
> A.
>
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> software development.
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