Resource For Help With Access

[Steve]

I provide help with Access applications. I specialize in designing the
tables for a new database and fixing problems and adding new functionality
in existing databases. My fee could be as low as ten dollars. If you need
help and can no longer connect to a newsgroup, I can help you. Contact me at
my email address below.

Steve
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Tom van Stiphout]

Keep in mind that Steve is notorious for violating newsgroup etiquette
and is always trolling for work. He doesn't grasp the concept that the
newsgroups are for FREE support and that commercial sollicitations are
off-topic and unwanted. Take him with a grain of salt.

Free Access support continues to be everywhere, such as:
The newsgroup comp.databases.ms-acces
social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/addbuz
utteraccess.com
tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MS_Access_Professionals
and several others.

-Tom.
Microsoft Access MVP


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[GP George]

I'm puzzled. Only $10.00 for help that the rest of us give out FREE in many
forums which are FREEly available to anyone looking for a FREE replacement
to the FREE help that has been offered FREE here in the public newsgroups.

In case anyone is interested and can still see the Newsgroup, here is a list
of FREE forums, where many Access experts and Access MVPS still offer 100%
FREE assistance and where you are not charged in any way for the FREE
answers there.

http://www.UtterAccess.Com
http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/
http://stackoverflow.com/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MS_Access_Professionals/

That's just for starters. I'm sure a reasonably serious search will turn up
several more FREE sites as well as a few that do charge. I suspect if you
want to pay for assistance, you'd want togo to one of those sites where a
significant number of Access Professionals still offer advice and guidance.

And that doesn't even count the other options, which some long-time Access
MVPS are supporting. Look through previous threads for more information on
those choices.

So, if you're still interested in getting FREE assistance from real
professionals, there are any number of ways to get that help FREE , without
paying even the "reasonable" fee of $10.

Georg Hepworth

 

[Larry Linson]

Steve Santus has been spamming newsgroups for a good many years. Regardless
of the admonitions that newsgroups are for free assistance, as this one
states; or the admonition that advertising, even of free stuff, is not
permitted, he refuses to follow the rules. Do you want to subject yourself
to the whims of someone who could, but will not, follow the rules?

Most of Steve's posts are simply flogging his services; but, when he does
attempt to answer questions, his correct answers are so few and far between
that capable, experienced Access developers who answer questions here for
free have said "no rates can be reasonable _enough_ to pay for wrong
answers".

But, poor Steve's claimed thousands of satisfied clients don't seem to be
enough. I doubt that is because he permanently solved their problems or
educated them enough that they no longer ever need any help. So, Steve must
take advantage of the last day or two to appeal for work Yet Again, here in
the dying newsgroup.

I wish Steve well, but I wouldn't wish him _on_ any users of this newsgroup.

--
Larry Linson, Microsoft Office Access MVP
Co-author: "Microsoft Access Small Business Solutions", published by Wiley
Access newsgroup support is alive and well in USENET
comp.databases.ms-access

I provide help with Access applications. I specialize
in designing the tables for a new database and fixing
problems and adding new functionality in existing
databases. My fee could be as low as ten dollars. If
you need help and can no longer connect to a news-
group, I can help you. Contact me at my email
address below.

Steve

also known as Steve the Spammer or Santus the Spammer

< for your own good, Steve's email was deleted>

 

[Steve]

This post is nothing but sour grapes!!

A few years ago Larry Linson begged me for a job. I turned him down because
he is an arrogant know-it-all and has no scruples about lieing. He stands on
his soap box wanting you to be riveted to everything he says but he is
nothing but an old man living in the past when he used Access95 and previous
versions.

Steve

 

[John... Visio MVP]

I provide help with Access applications. I specialize in designing the
tables for a new database and fixing problems and adding new functionality
in existing databases. My fee could be as low as ten dollars. If you need
help and can no longer connect to a newsgroup, I can help you. Contact me
at my email address below.

Steve
(e-mail address removed)

Panicking stevie? Where will you go to con people into your questionable
services?



Stevie is our own personal pet troll who is the only one who does not
understand the concept of FREE peer to peer support!
He offers questionable results at unreasonable prices.

These newsgroups are provided by Microsoft for FREE peer to peer support.
There are many highly qualified individuals who gladly help for free. Stevie
is not one of them, but he is the only one who just does not get the idea of
"FREE" support. He offers questionable results at unreasonable prices. If he
was any good, the "thousands" of people he claims to have helped would be
flooding him with work, but there appears to be a continuous drought and he
needs to constantly grovel for work.

Please do not feed the trolls.

John... Visio MVP

 

[John... Visio MVP]

Larry is far more competent with Access when he is asleep than stevie is
when stevie is supposedly at the top of his game.

I have yet to see Larry post anything that was a lie, but stevie on the
other hand seems to enjoy wallowing in untruths.
He has claimed to be an engineer, but any qualified engineer knows that they
have standards and ethics to maintain. Stevie kows nothing about ethics or
quality.

So one ZIP code per city? Sounds like some one from small town PA.

Stevie, go back to being a gasoline station attendant.

John... Visio MVP

 

[Larry Linson]

Well, John, I've challenged Steve to post a copy of any e-mail where I
inquired about work, which of course he could not do, and he hasn't even had
the smarts or guts to forge a copy. This isn't the first time he's made
such a baseless claim.

In words made famous by michka, "I'd rather slide down a giant razor blade
into a vat of iodine than work for Steve." I remember his first posts,
where he was bitching about not getting two days work from someone for
half-a-day's pay... that's not the kind of person you'd want to work for. If
I remember correctly, he didn't pay the guy anything, even though it sounded
as if the guy had completed and sent him exactly what Steve had asked for --
Steve just didn't know enough to specify the work product properly. I'd
sooner switch to eating a cheaper brand of dog food than stoop to working
for Steve, and, despite his claims, I haven't had to switch to even the best
of dog food, yet.

But, in moderated forums, he's going to find his opportunities extremely
limited. So I think we are going to have to be vigilant in CDMA to not let
him get away with it -- I know there are enough "old hands" headed back
there to be all over him like a cheap suit if he tries his tricks there. I
just hope he doesn't flood it with so much spam that people will not come
there to ask questions.

By the way, he plagiarized the "old man / living in past / previous
versions" stuff from the late Don P. Mellon. He doesn't even have enough
imagination and intelligence to create his own insults. But, then, he also
doesn't have enough imagination and intelligence to use anonymizers and such
to beseige a newsgroup, even with Mellon's example, to try to kill it.
Mellon, at least, _sometimes_ got in a pretty good "zinger" that'd make us
grin.

--
Larry Linson, Microsoft Office Access MVP
Co-author: "Microsoft Access Small Business Solutions", published by Wiley
Access newsgroup support is alive and well in USENET
comp.databases.ms-access

 

[rumkus]

A few years ago Larry Linson begged me for a job. I turned him down

Very good Steve, it is just as well you didn't hire him.
Are there others you turned down or fired though ?
I mean please let us know if they start nagging you for a job again.

 

[Piet Linden]

Well, John, I've challenged Steve to post a copy of any e-mail where I
inquired about work, which of course he could not do, and he hasn't even had
the smarts or guts to forge a copy.  This isn't the first time he's made
such a baseless claim.

In words made famous by michka, "I'd rather slide down a giant razor blade
into a vat of iodine than work for Steve."  I remember his first posts,
where he was bitching about not getting two days work from someone for
half-a-day's pay... that's not the kind of person you'd want to work for.If
I remember correctly, he didn't pay the guy anything, even though it sounded
as if the guy had completed and sent him exactly what Steve had asked for--  
Steve just didn't know enough to specify the work product properly.  I'd
sooner switch to eating a cheaper brand of dog food than stoop to working
for Steve, and, despite his claims, I haven't had to switch to even the best
of dog food, yet.

But, in moderated forums, he's going to find his opportunities extremely
limited. So I think we are going to have to be vigilant in CDMA to not let
him get away with it -- I know there are enough "old hands" headed back
there to be all over him like a cheap suit if he tries his tricks there. I
just hope he doesn't flood it with so much spam that people will not come
there to ask questions.

By the way, he plagiarized the "old man / living in past / previous
versions" stuff from the late Don P. Mellon.  He doesn't even have enough
imagination and intelligence to create his own insults.  But, then, he also
doesn't have enough imagination and intelligence to use anonymizers and such
to beseige a newsgroup, even with Mellon's example, to try to kill it.
Mellon, at least, _sometimes_ got in a pretty good "zinger" that'd make us
grin.

--
Larry Linson, Microsoft Office Access MVP
Co-author: "Microsoft Access Small Business Solutions", published by Wiley
Access newsgroup support is alive and well in USENET
comp.databases.ms-access

That's the difference between Steve and Don Mellon. Don was
occasionally helpful... even funny... well, until he stopped taking
his meds.