>>>>>Here is one question you might ask Andy if UT premiere membership (which I do not have, BTW) is a show stopper for him. Was Compuserve free? It wasn't for me before it was comped.
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>>>>No, compuserve was NOT free. But it did provide many other services (for example local access numbers world-wide, telephone support and hosting services) which were what you paid for. You did not have to pay to access any forum, or use any of the tools, that the forums provided. Access to archives and search engines were (and are) completely free.
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>>>>I didn't realize that the UT provided anything for the money other than access to itself.....?
>>>>(and by the way, _I_ do get a free membership because I am an MVP - but that has nothing to do with what I do)
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>>>>>Please urge him to come back to the FoxPro community.
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>>>>I have never left the community! Your view that the VFP Community is somehow linked to this site is nothing short of insulting to an awful lot of very hard working people all over the world. This sort of attitude is precisely why I don't waste my time here and if you have anything else to say about me, then I suggest you say it to me personally and not behind my back here.
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>>>>I would also suggest that maybe YOU should try and find the REAL FoxPro community - in places like Foxite, on the MSDN forums, on the Microsoft Public Forums, the Virtual FoxPro User Group and Compuserve (in ALL of which you will find ME!) plus other sites that I simply don't have time to visit regularly like Tek-Tips and PortalFox
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>>>>Then maybe you might also read my Blog, or take a free Webinar that I gave, or attend a conference session that I give, or go to a User Group meeting that I give, or read one of the articles the Marcia and I write for every iussue of FP Advisor (and that I have written every month since April 1998).
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>>>>I'm so sorry that in your valuable opinion I have "left the community"
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>>>Andy,
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>>>Somehow you and Eric den Doop and perhaps several other people as well have a negative attitude towards this forum and therefore deject all references to UT solutions posted on other boards considering them advertising and even ban people for referencing solutions from this forum by providing direct links.
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>>>I wholeheartly disagree with this attitude. The solution is a solution no matter where it is posted. Giving a direct reference to a solution, in my opinion, is the right thing to do.
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>>>I do disagree with what you wrote to me here http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1542375&SiteID=1 and I'm saying my opinion publically.
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>>Obviously, every forum may have own rules. It is regretful that some people still have bitterness toward UT (I have some ideas why, but I don't want to stir the pot). Basically, it's pretty stupid, imho.
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>Hey stir, away I'm curious/nosy
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>Nick

Nick;

I can only guess! By using my imagination based upon a number of “episodes” on the UT, one might write a book about dysfunctional personalities!

Now, by having Microsoft employees join discussions on the UT, does that constitute some type of infringement by Microsoft representing its products?

I do think that this whole soap opera is overblown. Some people are neurotic about specific things and you cannot attempt to rationalize with them and expect to reach common ground.

From what I saw from Naomi, she gave credit to Sergey and the UT for an answer to a question. I guess that some forums only accept “approved solutions”, and attempting to help others is not appreciated or acceptable unless the moon is in the correct phase.

By the way, I am sending you a personal message, in the attempt to reduce thread drift! :)

Tom