I'd like to clear up a few things about the situation regarding F-Squared Labs. 1. F-Squared Labs did NOT post its message to the IEEE listserver. It appeared in our distribution because one of our subscribers inadvertantly included it as an attachment to his posting. As you know, we have a strictly-enforced policy against advertising. Any advertising posting results in immediate removal from our mailing list. The listserver is set up so that no non- subscriber may post anything to our list. 2. Our subscriber list is ONLY available to subscribers. I maintain copies of our subscriber e-mail addresses. I collect these several times a year. I searched my past subscriber lists for all combinations of 'mark,' 'nabar,' and 'labs.' I did not find any matches back to September of 1998. So, unless it was some other subscriber name, it appears that F- Squared Labs did NOT get a copy of our subscriber list. Jim Bacher, one of our admins, told me that he received two copies of the F-Squared Labs message, one using his subscribed address and the other using an address that has not been subscribed for several years. So, we don't really know where F-Squared Labs has gotten our addresses. So, somewhere, F-Squared Labs obtained a list of many of us who also subscribe to this listserver. (I received my own copy of the message today!) We don't think they got a copy of our subscriber list unless it is from several years back, but not older than 1996. Or, they could have gotten a copy of the list from one of our subscribers. We have no means of preventing a subscriber from down- loading the list and providing it to someone else. 3. Kate McLean pointed out that, by discussing their message, we have given F-Squared Labs better publicity than they could have expected! When these sorts of things come up, please don't post admin-type issues to the entire list. Instead, please get in touch with one of us who administers the listserver. We're listed at the bottom of every message! If you want to discuss this further, please direct your e-mail to Jim, Michael, and me. Best regards, Rich ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: jim_bac...@mail.monarch.com Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org