>>Yeah, you're right, of course. I guess i should have said you have to be careful what you say in the Foxpro forum (reminds me of a joke from my youth : Methodist dies and goes to heaven and when given the tour sees a big wall and asks "What's over there?" and St. Peter says "Shhh, it's the Catholics - they think they're the only ones up here")
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>LOL
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>>I guess I'm afraid VFPers may lurk and expose my heresy <s>
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>>I am a bit surprised the .NET and SQL forums are not more robust with VFP UTers who have extended their skill sets, but I do think that starting at least 5 years ago those who were interested in something other than VFP started to feel the atmosphere was hostile and just stopped coming here and there isn't much now to pull them back. As one who fondly remembers the Foxgang sense of the old CIS days I sincerely miss that community - not sure the UT ever achieved that either in expertise or fellowship - but I am not optimistic about the trend reversing. Would love to be wrong (if only for the rarity of the experience <bg> )
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>Ahh CIS I loved the way the messages scrolled up slowly so you could read them easily. <g>
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>And the high tech graphics:
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>I don't think I was posting much when the "Foxgang" were in their heyday, I did post some in the older dBase forums before I got FoxBase. CIS was a fun place in the days before the world wide web, and yes there were a lot of talented people there.
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>Hopefully we can attract some new talent here one of these days.

I hope so too. I don't think it's important if it is Foxpro, .NET or Urdu - I just like the spirit we had of shared discovery and excitement and welcoming newcomers.