>For those that not knew about, please check this text that was copied from the FoxPro 2.6 DOS help file: http://www.foxprohistory.org/compuserve_the_fox_forum.htm
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>For those that knew about: was this the start of all FoxPro forums?
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Online discussion of FoxPro did start on CompuServe. Original, there was a single section within a forum that supported multiple products. After some time, that section had so much traffic that an entire forum was needed. It was called FoxForum and originally, as was the CompuServe standard in those days, had 17 sections. (This is why there are 17 questions in Whil Hentzen's original "dreaded list.") Later on, two things happened, but I don't remember in which order. CompuServe expanded forums to 24 sections (which is why the VFP version of Whil's list has 24 questions). In addition, there was so much traffic in FoxForum that a second, less technical, forum called FoxUsers (also known as FoxGang) was created.

When VFP was released, yet another FoxPro forum was added, VFox. So, for a while, there were three FoxPro forums. As traffic in the original FoxForum declined, as people moved from FoxPro 2.x to VFP, that forum eventually closed.

A couple of years ago, CompuServe (now owned by AOL) decided to consolidate a lot of its forums, and the two remaining FoxPro forums were combined with forums supported Access, VB and a few other things to from MSDevApps. VFP has 4 sections in that forum, and they are the busiest technical sections. In addition, the FoxGang accounts for almost all of the traffic in the Breakpoint/Chatter section of the forum.

Anyone who wants to check it out can do so (for free) at go.compuserve.com/msdevapps. You do have to create a unique screen name (or use your AOL, CompuServe or Hotmail name).

Tamar