ZZZ Microsoft Access Database

[Joseph Meehan]

Just a thought for a new name for this newsgroup. Maybe not being the
first on on the list might reduce the number of questions about other
Microsoft products.

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

Just a thought for a new name for this newsgroup. Maybe not
being the first on on the list might reduce the number of questions
about other Microsoft products.

Wouldn't that be nice!

 

[Fred Boer]

Makes me sleepy....

Fred

 

[John Eddy [MSFT]]

Just a thought for a new name for this newsgroup. Maybe not being the
first on on the list might reduce the number of questions about other
Microsoft products.

Unfortunately, renaming a newsgroup is not a physical possibility.

John Eddy
Microsoft Newsgroups Administrator

 

[Craig Alexander Morrison]

Why not remove this newsgroup entirely on 31 December 2004 and redirect
people to use the getting started or whatever appropriate newsgroup
depending upon their question?

As renaming is not possible one could close this newsgroup and create a new
one "general enquiries" or whatever.

While we're at it the m.p.a.internet newsgroup is a dead loss.

 

[John Eddy [MSFT]]

Why not remove this newsgroup entirely on 31 December 2004 and redirect
people to use the getting started or whatever appropriate newsgroup
depending upon their question?

A few reasons.
1) You can't do redirects in NNTP. When the group is gone, the group is
gone.
2) There is lots and lots and *lots* of on-topic traffic in this group and
we don't delete groups that are, for the post part, on topic.
3) Deleting a newsgroup can be tricky. The group will continue to live in
pockets of USENET and we don't want to do that to an active group.

As renaming is not possible one could close this newsgroup and create a
new
one "general enquiries" or whatever.

While we're at it the m.p.a.internet newsgroup is a dead loss.

Added to my list of things to watch.

Also, something to consider, these 'Training Posts'[1] often make their way
down into a few different microsoft.public.access subgroups. Simply getting
rid of microsoft.public.access won't do much but make them move to another
group. Tearing down the building because of rats just causes the rats to
move. Take care of the rats, and things are better.

John Eddy
Microsoft Newsgroups Administrator

[1] I am of the opinion that most of the non-technical, off topic posts are
coming from a couple of classes in a couple different countries. I'm not
talking about off-topic *technical* posts which can be for far many
different reasons and I'm not always as quick to remove.

 

[Joseph Meehan]

How about a "microsoft.public.aaa-ng-selector."

--
Joseph E. Meehan

26 + 6 = 1 It's Irish Math

Why not remove this newsgroup entirely on 31 December 2004 and redirect
people to use the getting started or whatever appropriate newsgroup
depending upon their question?

A few reasons.
1) You can't do redirects in NNTP. When the group is gone, the group is
gone.
2) There is lots and lots and *lots* of on-topic traffic in this group
and we don't delete groups that are, for the post part, on topic.
3) Deleting a newsgroup can be tricky. The group will continue to live
in pockets of USENET and we don't want to do that to an active group.

As renaming is not possible one could close this newsgroup and create a
new
one "general enquiries" or whatever.

While we're at it the m.p.a.internet newsgroup is a dead loss.

Added to my list of things to watch.

Also, something to consider, these 'Training Posts'[1] often make their
way down into a few different microsoft.public.access subgroups. Simply
getting rid of microsoft.public.access won't do much but make them move to
another group. Tearing down the building because of rats just causes the
rats to move. Take care of the rats, and things are better.

John Eddy
Microsoft Newsgroups Administrator

[1] I am of the opinion that most of the non-technical, off topic posts
are coming from a couple of classes in a couple different countries. I'm
not talking about off-topic *technical* posts which can be for far many
different reasons and I'm not always as quick to remove.

 

[Craig Alexander Morrison]

John

m.p.a is the only one like it, there is no m.p.sqlserver they are all
further qualified.

Or was this seen as the m.p.a.opendiscussion replacement for the forum on
CIS?

--
Slainte

Craig Alexander Morrison

 

[John Eddy [MSFT]]

m.p.a is the only one like it, there is no m.p.sqlserver they are all
further qualified.

Actually, microsoft.public.excel has a similar setup, as does
microsoft.public.visio.

 

[Craig Alexander Morrison]

OK!

Probably best to called it Cirrus, whose daft idea was Access anyway.(vbg)

Information at your fingertips, really.