Re: I Nominate this NewsGroup

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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:17:12 -0400, "Joseph Geretz" <jgeretz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

¤ I want to nominate this newsgroup is THE MOST RESPONSIVE newsgroup on the
¤ Microsoft news server.
¤
¤ My experience has been that I can post a question in this newsgroup and be
¤ confident of a response within hours. This is terriffic! Meanwhile I can
¤ post questions to the .NET newgroups and I won't receive a response for
¤ days.
¤
¤ What does this mean for the VB6 community in comparison with the .NET
¤ community?
¤
¤ VB6 developers are:
¤ more helpful?
¤ more proficient?
¤ more knowledgable?
¤ more numerous?
¤

More numerous? Probably, but the others don't apply. I'm not sure which .NET group you're posting to
but VB language group is rather responsive. You also have to understand that there is a far broader
range of topics in .NET that cover newer types of techniques and features.

Classic Visual Basic has been around so long (and hasn't changed for years) that the chances are
pretty good that someone has already encountered your issue...and has a solution.


Paul
~~~~
Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)
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