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Douglas Steele, Arvin Meyer, Tony Toews, John Spencer, Duane Hookum, Allen Browne, etc
Which access groups are you major gurus, who answer all the difficult
questions here, going to be helping with your expertise once these microsoft groups go away next week? All I have found so far for Access is msdn.en-US.accessdev, but haven't seem you posting there... You have all given us so much great advice, either directly or indirectly though these microsoft.public.access.xxxx groups, and would like to follow you wherever your expertise leads you. Thanks, O Great Ones! Mich |
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Douglas Steele, Arvin Meyer, Tony Toews, John Spencer, DuaneHookum, Allen Browne, etc
I don't know at this point.
I am still ticked off at the change. I will find a new home someplace. Not for Microsoft's benefit, but for the benefit of the people that need help. I enjoy helping and feel especially good when someone posts back with a thank you message. I've used NNTP via Thunderbird for the simple reason that it is efficient for me to scan through a large number of posts quickly. Most of the web-based sites slow me down considerably and I find more complex to use. John Spencer Access MVP 2002-2005, 2007-2010 The Hilltop Institute University of Maryland Baltimore County M Skabialka wrote: Which access groups are you major gurus, who answer all the difficult questions here, going to be helping with your expertise once these microsoft groups go away next week? All I have found so far for Access is msdn.en-US.accessdev, but haven't seem you posting there... You have all given us so much great advice, either directly or indirectly though these microsoft.public.access.xxxx groups, and would like to follow you wherever your expertise leads you. Thanks, O Great Ones! Mich |
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Douglas Steele, Arvin Meyer, Tony Toews, John Spencer, Duane Hookum, Allen Browne, etc
"M Skabialka" wrote in message
... Which access groups are you major gurus, who answer all the difficult questions here, going to be helping with your expertise once these microsoft groups go away next week? All I have found so far for Access is msdn.en-US.accessdev, but haven't seem you posting there... You have all given us so much great advice, either directly or indirectly though these microsoft.public.access.xxxx groups, and would like to follow you wherever your expertise leads you. Thanks, O Great Ones! Mich These groups are disappearing?! That sucks big time. Where is this announcement posted? Brian |
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Douglas Steele, Arvin Meyer, Tony Toews, John Spencer, Duane Hookum, Allen Browne, etc
"M Skabialka" wrote:
Which access groups are you major gurus, who answer all the difficult questions here, going to be helping with your expertise once these microsoft groups go away next week? All I have found so far for Access is msdn.en-US.accessdev, but haven't seem you posting there... Well, there is the Answers forum at http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...addbuz/threads Now I'm rather irritated at being lumped in with other products. I would think the volumes of Access traffic at least warrant our own forum. I'd vastly prefer about six or eight. But no word yet if this will happen. You have all given us so much great advice, either directly or indirectly though these microsoft.public.access.xxxx groups, and would like to follow you wherever your expertise leads you. Note that I will continue to monitor this newsgroup from non MS newsgroup servers. However traffic will be substantially less as folks won't be using the MS Online portal to ask questions. Also I'll be monitoring comp.databases.ms-access. Tony -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/ |
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Douglas Steele, Arvin Meyer, Tony Toews, John Spencer, Duane Hookum, Allen Browne, etc
"Brian Smith" wrote:
These groups are disappearing?! That sucks big time. Where is this announcement posted? Go back a ways in the postings and see the topic misleadingly titled "Reminder - Microsoft Responds to the Evolution of Community" Tony -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/ |
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Douglas Steele, Arvin Meyer, Tony Toews, John Spencer, Duane Hookum, Allen Browne, etc
"M Skabialka" wrote in
: Which access groups are you major gurus, who answer all the difficult questions here, going to be helping with your expertise once these microsoft groups go away next week? They aren't going to go away. Only MS's news server is going to go away, and I don't use it. -- David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/ usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/ |
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Douglas Steele, Arvin Meyer, Tony Toews, John Spencer, Duane Hookum, Allen Browne, etc
"Brian Smith" wrote in
: "M Skabialka" wrote in message ... Which access groups are you major gurus, who answer all the difficult questions here, going to be helping with your expertise once these microsoft groups go away next week? All I have found so far for Access is msdn.en-US.accessdev, but haven't seem you posting there... You have all given us so much great advice, either directly or indirectly though these microsoft.public.access.xxxx groups, and would like to follow you wherever your expertise leads you. Thanks, O Great Ones! Mich These groups are disappearing?! That sucks big time. Where is this announcement posted? Nothing is disappearing, but MS would like you to believe that it is. MS has repeatedly posted about this in all the ms.public newsgroups. -- David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/ usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/ |
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Douglas Steele, Arvin Meyer, Tony Toews, John Spencer, Duane Hookum, Allen Browne, etc
"David W. Fenton" wrote:
Which access groups are you major gurus, who answer all the difficult questions here, going to be helping with your expertise once these microsoft groups go away next week? They aren't going to go away. Only MS's news server is going to go away, and I don't use it. But traffic will be down a lot, maybe as much as 90%, as many folks use the online forums to ask questions. Tony -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/ |
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Douglas Steele, Arvin Meyer, Tony Toews, John Spencer, Duane Hookum, Allen Browne, etc
Newsgroups work because News Servers connect to
each other. When the MS News Servers disappear, microsoft.public.access will splinter into a bunch of independent newsgroups, with only a few people on each. Unless the ISPs start offering free news groups to each other, they will have to pay to maintain the community. Alternatively, one organisation could be the centre for microsoft.public.access. Putting aside the fact that ISPs are dropping support for NewsGroups, what is the likelihood that an ISP would want to connect to a different server for every different microsoft news group? Alternatively, one organisation could be the free centre for all microsoft newsgroups, and the ISPs could all connect. What is the possibility that Microsoft would be willing to overlook an organisation posing as microsoft.public? The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. (david) microsoft.public.access is retained "Tony Toews [MVP]" wrote in message ... "David W. Fenton" wrote: Which access groups are you major gurus, who answer all the difficult questions here, going to be helping with your expertise once these microsoft groups go away next week? They aren't going to go away. Only MS's news server is going to go away, and I don't use it. But traffic will be down a lot, maybe as much as 90%, as many folks use the online forums to ask questions. Tony -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/ |
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Douglas Steele, Arvin Meyer, Tony Toews, John Spencer, Duane Hookum, Allen Browne, etc
I will keep up as best I can on alternate servers. I intend to also post at:
comp.databases.ms-access and possibly on the forums as well. I find forums difficult with the time constraints that I have so my answers may be down significantly. I operate 3 websites (in my SIG) and Doug Steele and I are writing a book which will contain lots of helpful code. I am also President of the Computer Society of Central Florida, and lead 3 special interest groups (SIGs) there as well, including 1 on Access. If you live in the Orlando area, feel free to drop in. Information is at the Society's website: http://www.cfcs.org -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP http://www.datastrat.com http://www.accessmvp.com http://www.mvps.org/access Co-author: "Access 2010 Solutions", published by Wiley "M Skabialka" wrote in message ... Which access groups are you major gurus, who answer all the difficult questions here, going to be helping with your expertise once these microsoft groups go away next week? All I have found so far for Access is msdn.en-US.accessdev, but haven't seem you posting there... You have all given us so much great advice, either directly or indirectly though these microsoft.public.access.xxxx groups, and would like to follow you wherever your expertise leads you. Thanks, O Great Ones! Mich |
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