On May 29, 3:47*pm, "david" wrote:
I started posting here perhaps in 1999, when these groups got far less
traffic than they do today. *I can't identify my first question: I'm not
sure what name I posted under, and DejaNews is long gone. I stuck around
because the exercise of answering questions was educational for me, and the
education was relevant to my job. And, back in the day, it was easy to find
questions that had not already been answered.

Favorite post I ever posted:http://groups.google.com.au/group/mi...ss.reports/msg...
(it wasn't a good answer, but I did love it.)

Favorite post I ever read:http://groups.google.com.au/group/mi...ss/msg/1f14015...
(ok, that's self indulgent, but hey...)

The most important thing I ever learned here was how to script a complex
build:http://groups.google.com.au/group/mi...ss.modulesdaov...
but I don't know who I learned it from.

Most memorable character at the time was MitchKahttp://www.trigeminal.com/michka.asp(read the last paragraph of that page).
1999 was already well past the glory days of MSAccess: The Dev Ashish sitehttp://www.mvps.org/access/was already up with answers to all the important
questions. Lebans went on to create answers to new questions as they came
up.http://www.lebans.com/.

Many of the names you know and love still were already active then: some of
them had come across from *comp.databases.ms-access and Compuserve when MS
closed it's Compuserve forums in 1996 and opened these groups (Arvin Meyer,
Tony Toews, to name a couple)

(david)

"Wayne-I-M" wrote in message

news
High light of all posts I have read in this form
Doug Scott's post about the USA
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...browse_thread/...

and being called a racist by some guy in France
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...browse_thread/...

and then not :-)
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...browse_thread/...

and of course Arron :-)
--
Wayne
Manchester, England.

"Jerry Whittle" wrote:

Hi Wayne,

For some reason Microsoft Answers is blocked at work so I won't get there
much. UtterAccess might be my place to be of help to others.

Hope to run into you again.
--
Jerry Whittle, Microsoft Access MVP
Light. Strong. Cheap. Pick two. Keith Bontrager - Bicycle Builder.

"Wayne-I-M" wrote:

Over the past 6 years I have posted 2696 times. *I have answered a few
questions and asked a few myself.

That's it, it's over.
Best to jump before pushed.

Microsoft has decided that "to improve the customer experience" they
are
going to close down this forum. *Hmmmmm, nothing to do with cost then ?
Oh
well, I have found it to be true that it really is no use tilting at
windmills.

Not only has my English improved (I hope) by regularly typing away on
this
forum but also, by answering questions, I have also increased my
knowledge
due to having to find answer to problems that would never crop up in my
DB's
as they are from different industries and professions. *For both of
these
reasons I'd like the thank everyone past and present (sound like a
wedding
speak speech - I'd like to thank the bride's mother for making the
sandwiches..:-)

MS does have other forums for other programmes so they "may" start
another
one up for Access users, if so, see you there. *If not, "so long and
thanks
for all the fish".

Ci vediamo presto

Wayne
Manchester, England.

I have and do post at utter access forum. However I must say that the
better answers are here. By better I mean more clarity. I guess I will
have to stick to utteraccess if this group truly does close.

Microsoft makes a few strange decisions indeed.