"Mark Andrews" wrote in
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FYI: I gave Eternal September a try and it seems to work fine (you
just need to register to get a userid/password).

However, the comp.databases.ms-access newsgroup doesn't seem to
have much activity.
I'm wondering if the normal everyday user will be accessing it?

Depends on what you consider "much activity." In the last 24 hours
or so, the Eternal September news server had 22 new posts (I record
the new posts for 3 different news servers). The average since Jan.
20th (when I started a new spreadsheet) is just under 14 posts. This
compares to Newsguy.com, which I pay for, that has averaged just
under 20 in the same period for that newsgroup.

Does that "newsgroup bridge" for the microsoft forums work? I
never tried any microsoft forums.
Hoping I can stick with a newsgroup reader?

It theoretically works, but I haven't found it usable.

Does utteraccess have any newsgroup reader access? haven't used
that one much either. I think I tried a few questions
and got a bunch of answers that don't really answer the question
asked.

I doubt that they have it, as they want to control content way too
much for them to open it up to posting from other servers.

Before this thing goes down it would be great if we knew where the
normal group of access experts are going to.

I'm staying where I am which is:

comp.databases.ms-access
microsoft.publis.access.*
www.access-programmers.co.uk
Stackoverflow.com

I monitor and post in all those forums on a daily basis.

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