[AccessD] AccessD never changes

Hi Doug,

I appreciate your input.

I have one comment to your comment on having things "Organized by
Discussion". This  can maybe be met by using a different email client.
For example I use gmail for list mail and it organizes everything for
me by thread, essentially by subject. Threads show up as a single line
on the main mail list. If I'm interested I can open the thread and see
all the messages in that thread. For subjects I don't care about, I
don't open the thread.I'm not saying gmail is the be all email for
everyone but it works fabulously for list mail.

I would guess that other email clients could probably do a similar
thing with an option selection.

GK

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Doug Murphy <dw-murphy at cox.net> wrote:
> As A mostly lurker, question asker and sometime question answerer I'll chime
> in on this discussion. I learned about this list from Rocky, a fellow Access
> User Group of San Diego member. When I first signed up many years ago there
> was lots of interchange and debate on some really interesting questions. I
> learned a lot. Being a lone developer, aside from our user group I don't get
> to discuss Access as a development environment with too many people. This
> was great.
>
> As has been pointed out the list seems to have lost the Q/A, technical
> interchange focus. Also the format is antiquated. I have been spending more
> time on the LinkedIn Professional Microsoft Access Developers' Network
> (PMADN) group. The format is great as it is organized by discussion so if
> you're not interested you don't need to look. As can be seem from this
> group, PMADN, there is still quite a bit of technical interchange on Access
> and development.
>
> It is possible that the technical discussion has moved on to forums like
> PMADN,  UtterAccess , or StackOverFlow where personality and community
> aren't the focus but technical discussion and question answer is. New Access
> folks are looking for information, not who we are or what we used to do.
>
> My thoughts.
>
> Doug
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Kenneth Ismert
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 8:53 AM
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] AccessD never changes
>
> Change is inevitable. Right now, entropy is winning, and AccessD is slowly
> fading into background noise.
>
> This is a group using antique technology to serve antique people.
> Seriously, is anyone here under 40? I bet very few. Anyone under 30? I'd be
> shocked if we had more than a token number.
>
> Nothing I have read in this current conversation indicates that anything has
> changed for the positive. As far as I can tell:
>
> * We are still in the long tail of decline, both in overall postings and
> on-topic postings.
> * The number of active participants is slowly declining
>
> Of course, I am ready to be proven wrong. The people running AccessD can
> release numbers showing whether we are trending up or down.
>
> That hasn't happened yet, and probably for good reason.
>
> The facts are depressing.
>
> -Ken
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