Hi Kevin,

There were some very talented developers, who are no longer active in UniversalThread. Paul Vlad Tatavu, Barbara Paltiel, Barbara Peisch, Edward Pikman (?), few others. Also you know about the greatest lost we had at December 21th. That's a void, which could not be filled in years...

Also it looks like David Frankenbach and Jim Booth are not that active, as they used to be few years ago... Same I can tell for few other developers... Vlad Grynchyshyn comes to mind as well...

But still the quality of the answeres is satisfactory, I think...

>Thanks for the (detailed) explanation.
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>I still seem to be the only one sensing the lack of responses though, unless I'm the only one it's affecting.
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>Oh well
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>Kev
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>>Hi Kevin,
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>>>Whenever I post a question nowadays, responses, if any, seem to be kept to a minimal. A few years back the responses would come back thick & full.
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>>A few years back, a few forums (CompuServe and the UT mainly) were the most important resources for VFP developers. You either found the answer there or in one of the few magazines.
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>>The situation has changed over the past few years. With Visual Studio 98, Microsoft shipped a full MSDN Library on CD and every VFP 6 developer got a one year free subscription. Shortly after, the MSDN Library license was changed so that you can share it with anyone in the company. At the same time, the online version of MSDN improved a lot and more and more articles became available online on the internet. Today we have the situation that people first look on the internet and then in their bookshelf to find solutions. Also, forums were much more offline oriented in the past. Most folks who were in Compuserve used an offline reader, even the UT had an offline reader. Chat tools like ICQ, Messenger, etc. were not wide spread or even written.
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>>A few years ago it made much more sense to give a much broader reply... If the reply didn't cover different possible problems and solutions, the exchange back and forth went on for some time. If you check replies only a few times a day, this was a lengthy process. As we move to more and more online discussions and people keep using instant messaging, this process is shorted and became acceptable. Therefore many answers read like snippets from a dialog, not like entire letters as it used to be.
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>>Also, in the past it made sense to give a much broader reply with a lot of background information, because it would serve a lot more developers than just the one who asked. Today, such extensive replies would be merely a summary of some article on MSDN or somewhere else on the net.
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>>Christof