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From: Fred on 1 Jun 2010 10:56 Folks have recommended various sites to replace this (Access) newsgroup for when poor-listener Microsoft drops it. Why don't we pick a replacement to give it the "critical mass" to fully replace this one? If interested, please respond to this with your recommendation. Also, if you feel like it, in case this goes dead, send me an email with your email address at North9000 at gmail dot com and I'll try to collect / send out the news/results. (via blind cc) I did / will be duplicating this in database design, general and new user Access groups.
From: Access Developer on 1 Jun 2010 11:44 Responded to this request in "microsoft.public.access". Had you posted via newsreader-newsserver instead of the Microsoft online UI, you could have cross-posted instead of multi-posting, so all the responses would be proliferated to all the cross-posted newsgroups. -- Larry Linson, Microsoft Office Access MVP Co-author: "Microsoft Access Small Business Solutions", published by Wiley Access newsgroup support is alive and well in USENET comp.databases.ms-access "Fred" <Fred(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:818E6707-D62E-4182-A42D-B1FFE382A202(a)microsoft.com... > Folks have recommended various sites to replace this (Access) newsgroup > for > when poor-listener Microsoft drops it. > > Why don't we pick a replacement to give it the "critical mass" to fully > replace this one? If interested, please respond to this with your > recommendation. > > Also, if you feel like it, in case this goes dead, send me an email with > your email address at North9000 at gmail dot com and I'll try to > collect / send out the news/results. (via blind cc) > > I did / will be duplicating this in database design, general and new user > Access groups. >
From: Albert S. on 1 Jun 2010 17:30 Yeah, I think MS is not taking into account all the people like me that just read and learn and don't necessarily post a lot of questions... I vote for comp.database.access or http://www.utteraccess.com/ Haven't used the utteraccess yet, but signed up and have started reading some of the posts... -- Albert S. "Fred" wrote: > Folks have recommended various sites to replace this (Access) newsgroup for > when poor-listener Microsoft drops it. > > Why don't we pick a replacement to give it the "critical mass" to fully > replace this one? If interested, please respond to this with your > recommendation. > > Also, if you feel like it, in case this goes dead, send me an email with > your email address at North9000 at gmail dot com and I'll try to > collect / send out the news/results. (via blind cc) > > I did / will be duplicating this in database design, general and new user > Access groups. >
From: John W. Vinson on 2 Jun 2010 19:20 On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:03:55 +0200, Steve Hayes <hayesstw(a)telkomsa.net> wrote: >Will the replacement one connect to Microsoft? THIS one won't, that's for certain. The Microsoft forums will be run on Microsoft's own hardware, so yes; they won't propagate to USENET however. >If not, why not continue with this one, which already has critical mass? People coming from the Microsoft "get online help" buttons in the programs will not know about these newsgroups, and will not have any way from within Microsoft's software to get to them, so these newsgroups will probably dwindle to a small subset of sophisticated, experienced users, contending for bandwidth with spammers and trolls. The bulk of the "new questions" will, I fear, go elsewhere. -- John W. Vinson [MVP]
From: David W. Fenton on 2 Jun 2010 21:01
=?Utf-8?B?QWxiZXJ0IFMu?= <albert_s(a)albert.microsoft.com> wrote in news:A05FDCBD-5923-4317-970F-735A7CDECD6A(a)microsoft.com: > I vote for comp.database.access or http://www.utteraccess.com/ > > Haven't used the utteraccess yet, but signed up and have started > reading some of the posts... Utteraccess is a private site and if you violate the arbitrary rules of the admins there, you can be banned (as I was, for saying that somebody's answer was bloody stupid and then explaining why; you can't find that answer there now, because they deleted it after they banned me for not apologizing!). -- David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/ usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/ |