I can assure everyone that Steve wouldn't last past his first request for "a
reasonable fee" to answer a poster's question at Utter Access.

I know that there are pros and cons for both moderated forums and the
newsgroups, so I'm
not going to go all pedantic on this point, but one of those pros definitely
is that on a moderated forum,
we can, and do, monitor all posts by all members ( or at least we try to do
so ).

Spamming -- a la "reasonable fee" --gets people permanently banned at our
site as soon as the post is spotted by a moderator or administrator.
I imagine most other moderated forums have a similar policy regarding abuse.

Again, I acknowledge that the moderated forum environment is not for
everyone. Nonetheless, I think that, at least in this regard,
we have a pretty good thing going.

George
MS Access MVP
UA Administrator





"Tom van Stiphout" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 30 May 2010 14:32:15 -0500, "Larry Linson"
wrote:

Hi Larry,
Another point is that with more and more support options going to a
moderated format, there may be fewer and fewer places for Steve to
grovel for work. That's definitely one of the weak points of usenet
newsgroups and something I'm looking forward to with Microsoft Answers
and other places.

-Tom.
Microsoft Access MVP


Steve Santus has been spamming newsgroups for a good many years.
Regardless
of the admonitions that newsgroups are for free assistance, as this one
states; or the admonition that advertising, even of free stuff, is not
permitted, he refuses to follow the rules. Do you want to subject yourself
to the whims of someone who could, but will not, follow the rules?

Most of Steve's posts are simply flogging his services; but, when he does
attempt to answer questions, his correct answers are so few and far
between
that capable, experienced Access developers who answer questions here for
free have said "no rates can be reasonable _enough_ to pay for wrong
answers".

But, poor Steve's claimed thousands of satisfied clients don't seem to be
enough. I doubt that is because he permanently solved their problems or
educated them enough that they no longer ever need any help. So, Steve
must
take advantage of the last day or two to appeal for work Yet Again, here
in
the dying newsgroup.

I wish Steve well, but I wouldn't wish him _on_ any users of this
newsgroup.