Bill, John, et al - I subscribe at work with very nice bandwidth at no direct cost to me and yet I fully support your position. Indeed a quick perusal of the official posting policy for the list, presented below, makes the point. I dislike even e-cards attached to e-mails to the list.
Regards, Peter L. Tarver, PE Product Safety Manager Sanmina-SCI Homologation Services San Jose, CA [email protected] Reposted without permission and with all due apologies for treading on administrator's privilege: >>> quote <<< From: [email protected] on behalf of Rich Nute [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 4:22 PM To: Product Safety Technical Committee Subject: Administrative message -- posting formats Regarding postings, here is a re-statement of our guidelines that were sent to you when you subscribed: 1. No attachments (because many of our subscribers use dial-up modems for which message size determines the download time). If an attachment is appropriate or necessary to your message, then a) offer to e-mail it separately upon request, or b) make it available on an FTP site, or c) post it to a web site and provide the URL in your message. 2. Post in ASCII plain text. Do not use RTF, HTML, or similar formats. Not all mail readers are compatible with these formats, but all mail readers are compatible with ASCII plain text. In most cases (especially Outlook), you can set your mailer to always use ASCII plain text for messages sent to emc-pstc. Also, please don't write messages without carriage returns. Some mailer readers can't handle long lines, so the line is truncated and part of the line disappears. If you use CR (ENTER) at the end of each line, then each reader will see the same format as the one you wrote. 3. Please don't re-post the entire message string when replying to a message. Instead, pick out the passages to which you want to respond, enter your response, and delete the other text. This makes your point easier to understand, and helps keep the message size down for our modem- connected colleagues. Don't forget to delete the emc-pstc footer! :-) (Each posted message gets the footer attached; multiple footers provide no useful information, and just make downloads longer.) 4. If appropriate, when responding to a message, change the subject line to agree with the major point or content of your contribution. You can append "was 'original subject'" to your subject if you want to reference the original subject. This will help us when the subject matter strays from the original. 5. If you want to attach a "signature," please do so in ASCII (for the same reason as posting in ASCII), not the business card format that is gaining popularity. Best regards, Richard Nute Administrator, emc-pstc listserver Tel: +1-858-655-3329 FAX: +1-858-655-4374 e-mail: [email protected] >>> end quote <<< This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
