The messenger is safe Mike.

Since I can find *no* messages in the "OLE Automation" category for July or August, I presume that this category was newly added as a result of the conference.

That suggests that adding a category is a straightforward exercise, once agreement has been reached to do so.

As to your comment in the other thread that some recent suggestions are not related to VFP 'support', the existing categories "Conferences and Events", "Contracts, Agreements...." and "Internet Applications" are three that qualify similarly, in my humble opinion.

The debugger is mysterious to many of us. In fact I wonder what percentage of the UT population make *regular* use of it. It could just be that having a category for this would spur many more to ask much more about it. I, for one, sure cannot see what harm there would be in trying and finding out.

I see a Wish Discussion category in a similar way, but with possible added bonuses. And maybe some really BIG bonuses too!!!

In the worst case the new categories would stay unused. What is the problem with that???
In the probable case there will be no added message traffic, but rather a dispersal of those messages amonst some more categories. The way the UT operates, this is not a problem at all (other than the possibility that there will be more categories for the SysOps to re-distribute messages to).
In the best case there will be much more message traffic as a result of new categories 'reminding' members of questions/comments/etc that may not be immediate but nevertheless have presented challenges in the past. And the whole objective of the UT, I thought, was QUALITY high-volume message traffic.

I know that you're not the person to react to any of this, but you simply present the opportunity to get my position out there.

Thanks for your indulgence,

Jim N


>HI Jim and Mark,
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>Whoah! Don't kill the messanger ;-)
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>There was about 10-12 members, about half were very active regulars here.