Pat, I want to clarify by saying that the important bit here is that I believe that it would benefit certain members of the club to have read only access to the DoR so that they could run direct querys from the database (even a regulary copied version of the database).
This is what Larry and I have campaigned for. To be able to filter and read the information and output it in a way that would make our web sites more dynamic and reduce the time spent updating databases (by copying reports from the DoR into a spreadsheet, tranfering into a database and then updating our databases to transfer the needed information to our websites).
I am pointing this out because we have been asking for access or a regular updated copy of the DoR to enable us to write better pages, I will continue to (because I hate to do something over and over when if done once correctly would be enough).
On the points you make...one thing jumped out
1-8 past history
9 <blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">because it is Cabinet Policy to preserve a Member's good Name, regardless of any scurrilous behaviour by that member and past because there is a campaign and belief that " the Past belongs in the Past."! <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> Yet you ingnore this in your points one to eight.
Larry has been volatile and has rubbed many people up the wrong way, I agree, but lets not lose the point here...this is not about Larry, it is about <font color="red">(READ ONLY ACCESS)</font id="red"> to the DoR so that us Admin Staff who create your web sites and try to keep them up to date can have an easier life (I sometimes spend 15 hours working on sites etc for them to be out of date the very next day).
I don't want to mess with the DoR neither did Larry, we just wanted to write code that could use the powerful tool that was the DoR to its full potential. Even a copy that was updated on a weekly basis would have removed a big burden from us, and I do not think that is too much to ask. I would rather be writing more web pages than updating (for the twentieth time)a site I created a year ago.
Think about my point, because I am the one trying to pick up what is left.
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