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From: Fred on 1 Jun 2010 10:54
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 11:32
USENET newsgroup comp.databases.ms-access (CDMA) has been around longer than
the Microsoft-sponsored newsgroups (Microsoft was still using CompuServe
forums when CDMA was approved). At least one member of the Big-8 Management
Board has indicated he will try to expedite formation of new USENET groups,
if needed. But, the single CDMA newsgroup has worked well... quite a lot of
present and past Microsoft MVPs for Access have indicated they will be
monitoring that group and answering questions.

I see you are posting from Microsoft's online interface... many of the
people who answer questions contend that every online interface they have
seen / used is clumsier, less-effective, prevents working offline, and has
many other drawbacks -- if they were interested in spending more time and
effort to help others, they could just suppress their distaste and use the
clumsy, online, less-effective online forums that Microsoft has proposed.

I agree with that online UI to Q&A is less-effective. Because my ISP dropped
newsgroup support, I have signed up with a news server service -- the one
I'm using is inexpensive, but not free, however there are free news servers
that get good reports. I'm posting right now using that service to
newsgroups that Microsoft has officially dropped, but other servers are not
dropping, so will continue to be useful if you'll get a news server and a
news reader. Outlook Express will work, and there are many free and for-fee
news readers with additional capability.

You will not be able to use the Microsoft online UI with the newsgroups, but
it has had unfixed bugs for months, perhaps years, so is even less useful
now than it once was.

--
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:0326041C-B1DD-4659-BB74-5650DF6E3EA2(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: Fred on 1 Jun 2010 13:15
Thanks for the info and recommendation.

The experts have been focusing on the technical aspects (news group vs web
interface) but I think that what's more key is an Access-focused
forum/newsgroup, with some subdivisions, and knowing that most people that
are asking a question will need a web site / web interface.

Sincerely,

Fred


From: Bob Quintal on 1 Jun 2010 17:07
=?Utf-8?B?RnJlZA==?= <Fred(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:2500C9A5-F9E9-49B6-AD28-75FAB9610BF0(a)microsoft.com:

> Thanks for the info and recommendation.
>
> The experts have been focusing on the technical aspects (news
> group vs web interface) but I think that what's more key is an
> Access-focused forum/newsgroup, with some subdivisions, and
> knowing that most people that are asking a question will need a
> web site / web interface.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Fred

Nobody NEEDS a web-based interface. Outlook, Eudora, Opera all do nntp.

There are reams of NNTP clients out there, many free.

From: David W. Fenton on 1 Jun 2010 17:26
=?Utf-8?B?RnJlZA==?= <Fred(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:2500C9A5-F9E9-49B6-AD28-75FAB9610BF0(a)microsoft.com:

> The experts have been focusing on the technical aspects (news
> group vs web interface) but I think that what's more key is an
> Access-focused forum/newsgroup, with some subdivisions, and
> knowing that most people that are asking a question will need a
> web site / web interface.

I vote for a single newsgroup with no subdivisions at all.

--
David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/
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