[Dxbase] Joe is now QRT - GONE - I truely have had enough ...

[Larry E Price]

Neal - I only recall myself one other time that Joe retired and then
returned and I know that was because of private problems in the health of a
family member.  More than four years ago I 'predicted' on the reflector that
the future of dxbase was questionable after Jack stopped having a sales
booth at Dayton. Many of my colleagues here were outspokenly critical of my
comments.  Then you rode in, bought the IP and everything was said to be
rosy again.  

However, in the years that have gone by there has seemingly not been any
progress, no booth at Dayton (although you said you were present 'working'
another sales booth), no product development that we hams could see and
except for the superior customer service offered by Joe not much activity:
[like perhaps many others I once posted a problem I was having and was
surprised by a personal telephone call from Joe to talk me through the
solution, all at his expense].

So, like Joe (but without his intimate knowledge of the program), I too am
probably gone because I simply don't have much confidence in the future of
dxbase.

73
Larry
W4RA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neal Campbell [mailto:nealk3nc at me.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 7:39 AM
> To: 'Giuseppe Giunta - IT9VDQ'; dxbase at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Joe is now QRT - GONE - I truely have had enough
> ...
> 
> Guys,
> 
> I am indeed working on fixing the bug for CD Callbook lookups' bearing
> calculation bug in the 2007 version.
> 
> Joe has a long history on this reflector and I think we can all thank
> him for his help.
> 
> But, Joe also has a history of these announcements of leaving and
> coming back (at least in my history with the list). I think this is the
> third or fourth time. This incident that has caused Joe's latest "final
> straw" was that some files he sent to be included in the new installer
> were not included in the test version.
> 
> The first time Joe "left forever" was that I had changed my mind about
> what version of Access would be the new format for the v10 database
> format. I decided to use Access 2000's library as I heard enough
> comments that people could not find Access '97 anymore. This egregious
> decision resulted in Joe leaving for 6 months, I believe.
> 
> My usual response to these types of outbursts is to say nothing and I
> probably should have taken my own advice this time, but when he sends
> this type of note to the reflector it demands a response. This time is
> my "final straw" with him.
> 
> I will remember Joe for the time he has helped me and try to forget the
> times he hasn't but its time to move on and get back to work on version
> 1.10. I have truly moved on.
> 
> 73
> Neal
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________
> Dxbase mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:Dxbase at mailman.qth.net
> 
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html



---
avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean.
Virus Database (VPS): 120509-1, 05/09/2012
Tested on: 5/10/2012 8:11:28 AM
avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2012 AVAST Software.
http://www.avast.com