Thank you Steve for all your help

[RB86]

Thanks Steve, you've been exceptionally helpful and nice to me. I appreciate
every effort you've made to amend my database with your advanced knowledge
and experience. Not a lot of random people you meet off the internet on the
discussion board offer to personally review the database and make changes
themselves.
Keep up the good work .
Raheel

 

[Keith Wilby]

Or are you *really* one of the xxxx users that did come to Steve for help
??

He certainly didn't help in the only other thread I could find that was
started by this poster, "Partial data search in a column" in the "queries"
forum.

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

Hallelujah! You are finally here!

For a long time in his sigline, steve has bragged about the thousands he has
helped, but none have stepped forward to defend steve's abuse of the
newsgroups. You are the first and it is the most glowing of recommendations.
Others have helped in these newsgroups and recieved on the rare occassion a
simple thank you at the end of the thread. You have gone far beyond that and
started a new thread. Actually even further, you started TWO new threads. I
don't think I have seen any stand alone post thanking any of the regular
contributers.

Of course, I do have a few questions,
How come I can not find any thread in this newsgroup that you started and
steve responded to?
Is steve so good that you do not actually have to post a message to recieve
his help?

Why did you not mention his reasonable fees?
Why does steve not demonstrate his advanced knowledge in these newsgroups?
Is it just coincidence that showed up on the thirtieth anniversary of
Elvis's death?
One last question, are you for raheel?

John... Visio MVP

 

[David W. Fenton]

Of course, I do have a few questions,
How come I can not find any thread in this newsgroup that you
started and steve responded to?
Is steve so good that you do not actually have to post a message
to recieve his help?

Why did you not mention his reasonable fees?
Why does steve not demonstrate his advanced knowledge in these
newsgroups? Is it just coincidence that showed up on the thirtieth
anniversary of Elvis's death?
One last question, are you for raheel?

Posting through Microsoft's server means that there's no tracing
this individual from the information in the post itself.

If there were a sig with a non-MS email address and a website or
some kind of reference to something outside the post itself, it
would be possible to confirm that this is actually a real person who
has been helped by Steve.

But without any of that, I think it's quite safe to assume it's just
a sock puppet of Steve's.

If that's the case, it's really too bad, since I had always felt
that Steve was a well-meaning but misguided individual. If he's
using sock puppets, then that means he's *not* well-meaning, that he
is underhanded and sneaky and dishonest.

But, Raheel, you can fix all of that if you just step out and prove
that you really exist.

 

[Gina Whipp]

Can't be the same Steve I tried to reason with.... can't be! THAT Steve
wouldn't provide FREE help on his time, so I refuse to believe this is the
same Steve.

 

[tina]

hmm, well, i did notice that the Op very carefully did NOT say that the
wonderful help he got was free...

 

[RB86]

hey , i'm glad my true opinions could bring you some amusement, although
considering your level of uncertain doubts the impression i get is that due
to your spiteful attitude you probably never received true help from anyone
in the past. Maybe you should consider being a little more open-minded to
experience help from people who offer help out of good-will.
Have a less malicious day.
Raheel

 

[RB86]

he did offer me lot of help outside of the discussion board, can't thank him
enough for his time and effort

 

[RB86]

What do i have to do to prove my existence , all i gotta say is that you
people have way too much free time on your hands. maybe you should try using
all this time for something good. unfortunately i don't have so much time,
some of which was saved by Steve.

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

You still have not explained the type of help you recieved or the thread it
started with.

John... Visio MVP

 

[RB86]

oh i'm sorry, didn't know i had to mention every tiny detail regarding
steve's help to me . just FYI i wasn't charged any fees for the help
provided. Just cuz nobody found his help useful, i don't give a shit. All i
care about is my supervisor being happy from my work and i'm glad i found
the right person for it.
raheel

 

[Arno R]

hey , i'm glad my true opinions could bring you some amusement, although
considering your level of uncertain doubts the impression i get is that due
to your spiteful attitude you probably never received true help from anyone
in the past. Maybe you should consider being a little more open-minded to
experience help from people who offer help out of good-will.
Have a less malicious day.
Raheel

Still laughing here... Thanks !!

Arno R

 

[David W. Fenton]

What do i have to do to prove my existence

Show us some factual evidence of your existince outside the
testimonial posts, such as a website that predates your post.

 

[David W. Fenton]

oh i'm sorry, didn't know i had to mention every tiny detail
regarding steve's help to me . just FYI i wasn't charged any fees
for the help provided. Just cuz nobody found his help useful, i
don't give a shit. All i care about is my supervisor being happy
from my work and i'm glad i found the right person for it.

Why not have your supervisor email one of the regulars in the
newsgroup with his/her real email address? That would allow
confirmation that you are a real person and not a sock puppet.

If you really think Steve deserves this credit, you'd be willing to
do this.

 

[David W. Fenton]

he did offer me lot of help outside of the discussion board, can't
thank him enough for his time and effort

Big freaking deal. There are literally hundreds of people who
participate in these forums who are offering free help to everyone
who posts. Steve is the only one who *ever* takes that over to "you
can pay me for more." Many of us do all sorts of things for others
for no compensation that does not show up in these forums. That
Steve might sometimes do that does not make him special at all.

The thing that makes him "special" is that he is mercenary in his
use of these newsgroups, something that violates the spirit (and the
letter) of the customs that govern these forums.

He's been politely asked not to over and over and over and over
again, but he gets really nasty claiming his right to flout the
norms of behavior.

If you think that's OK, then, well, you are not worth much as a
participant here. You don't seem to be one, anyway, except in this
suspicious thread praising Steve.

 

[tina]

hmm, i also notice that this Op is quick to post a hostile and foul-mouthed
response, just as Steve has frequently done when questioned or criticized in
any manner...

 

[Gina Whipp]

Interesting... you did NOT bother to thank the other people that helped you
but instead to thank the ONE person that constantly "violates the spirit
(and the letter) of the customs that govern these forums" (thank you Daivd,
you said so well I...) What about the other people that helped you, do they
not deserve a 'special' thanks?

My eye brow just went up...

 

[Arno R]

Big freaking deal. There are literally hundreds of people who
participate in these forums who are offering free help to everyone
who posts. Steve is the only one who *ever* takes that over to "you
can pay me for more." Many of us do all sorts of things for others
for no compensation that does not show up in these forums. That
Steve might sometimes do that does not make him special at all.

The thing that makes him "special" is that he is mercenary in his
use of these newsgroups, something that violates the spirit (and the
letter) of the customs that govern these forums.

He's been politely asked not to over and over and over and over
again, but he gets really nasty claiming his right to flout the
norms of behavior.

If you think that's OK, then, well, you are not worth much as a
participant here. You don't seem to be one, anyway, except in this
suspicious thread praising Steve.

A Google search on the OP here learns that he/she has posted in 5! threads,
Two of these are the 'Thank-you-Steve'-threads...
Remains 3 threads where he participated! Wow !!

"Partial data search in a column" in ms.public.access.queries (started july 9)
"Retreiving data from another table" in ms.public.access (started july 27)
"Importing from one table to another" in ms.public.access.externaldata (started july 30, which is the same question)

In *none* of these threads Steve has participated ...
Maybe the OP *does* exist, but I consider his/hers 'contribution' here to be only *sheer utter nonsense*

And where is Steve ??? When does he show up to defend his defender ??

Arno R

 

[Gerry Hatrick]

hmm, i also notice that this Op is quick to post a hostile and foul-mouthed
response, just as Steve has frequently done when questioned or criticized in
any manner...

True, but if this was Steve then there'd be a liberal sprinkling of these:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gerry

 

[Gerry Hatrick]

he did offer me lot of help outside of the discussion board, can't thank him
enough for his time and effort

When I want to thank someone for their help, I stand on a box in the
town centre and shout it at the top of my voice. Oh, hang on ...