paul
paul4pr at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 12:13:53 CST 2013
Very nice, Arthur. Hear hear! You've helped a huge number of us, even back in those days when you were seriously unwell. Be very good to have you here for a long time to come - very good to know your extensive knowledge remains available. Best wishes paul Paul Rodgers On 27 February 2013 18:03, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote: > As a senior citizen (officially retired), I have time on my hands, and am > willing to volunteer to play some administrative part in our > present-and-future directions. > > Over the years that I have belong to our lists, I have learned a ton and > made some friends here, and I value that immensely. > > If I can help, in any way, I would be happy to do so. More times than I can > enumerate, people here have saved my bacon! And I stand ready to pay back > and pay forward to my beloved community. > > A. > > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:12 PM, jack drawbridge <jackandpat.d at gmail.com>wrote: > >> Well said Tina, I agree. >> >> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Tina Norris Fields < >> tinanfields at torchlake.com> wrote: >> >> > I may be being very sensitive at this moment, dealing daily as I am with >> > my father's really bad health. But, I am really uncomfortable with >> anybody >> > attacking a list member. I am especially uncomfortable when the person >> > being attacked is someone I regard as a personal friend. If I fail to >> > stand up for him I fail to meet my own moral standards. >> > >> > So. . . please do not attack my friend John Colby, a man who has given >> > many hours of kind willingness to share what he has learned, or invented, >> > with all of us. I learn valuable treasure from JC every time he >> publishes >> > or posts a new lesson. Whenever I have asked him directly for >> assistance, >> > he has done his best to assist me. What more are we truly to ask of one >> > another in this list? We share our knowledge and help each other with >> > Access development issues. I am very grateful for this list and for the >> > people on it. I really do not want to fight with anyone, and I don't >> want >> > to witness a fight. I simply cannot honorably stand by and allow one >> > colleague to attack another. >> > >> > Tina >> > >> > Tina Norris Fields >> > tinanfields at torchlake.com >> > 231-322-2787 >> > >> > >> > On 2/25/2013 11:51 PM, Kenneth Ismert wrote: >> > >> >> Ladies and gents: >> >> >> >> Rarely does a member's reply merit parody, but this one does. Remember >> >> kids, everything in " " is an actual Colby quote! >> >> >> >> ** BEGIN PARODY ** >> >> >> >> Board member Colby announced his do nothing agenda to his throngs of >> >> change >> >> deniers, "because I don't care." >> >> >> >> He continued addressing his adoring crowd on the subject of change: >> "But I >> >> am not going to do it. And waiting for me to do it is an automatic >> death >> >> knell." >> >> >> >> One of his followers fairly swooned, saying you can't get less >> leadership >> >> from a bump on a log. >> >> >> >> Colby finished with a rousing summary, indicating his lack of >> compunction >> >> about his utter apathy: "'I am not Catholic' as I like to tell my wife. >> I >> >> don't do guilt." >> >> >> >> ** END PARODY ** >> >> >> >> Now seriously. I haven't heard a clearer expression of dereliction of >> duty >> >> from a board officer, ever. Unforced, I must add. By any moral sense, he >> >> is >> >> unfit for his office. >> >> >> >> Therefore, I call on you, sir, to resign. >> >> >> > >> > -- >> > AccessD mailing list >> > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> > http://databaseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/accessd< >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd> >> > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.**com< >> http://www.databaseadvisors.com> >> > >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> > > > > -- > Arthur > Cell: 647.710.1314 > > Prediction is difficult, especially of the future. > -- Niels Bohr > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com