Death of the listserver

2003-01-01 Thread Jim Ericson
Dear Richard and Jim [co-administrators]: The EMC Laboratory that I work for (Acme Testing Company in Acme, Washington) has the quietest open-field Emissions Sites (OATS) within a 1000 mile radius. We planned it that way. The village of Acme has a total population of under 100 people. My home

Re: Changes to IEEE emc-pstc web-based services

2003-01-01 Thread Scott Lacey
John has succinctly summed up the situation that many of us find ourselves in. It is a shame that the internet community is being divided into the haves and havenots (broadband vs. dial up). I for one refuse to be forced to upgrade to broadband from my very satisfactory $7.50/month current

RE: Changes to IEEE emc-pstc web-based services

2003-01-01 Thread Pommerenke, David
Dear Group, My experience is that with WEB-based systems there will be significantly less participation. Posting of large documents, as people will not carefully think about file size, compression down-sampling etc will make it worse for people on dial-up connections. Discussions will be based

Re: Changes to IEEE emc-pstc web-based services

2003-01-01 Thread b...@lyons.demon.co.uk
In message 44+byya84qe+e...@jmwa.demon.co.uk John Woodgate writes: It seems to me that the web site system is OK for people with 'always- on' connection, but for those of us on dial-up, especially pay-as-you-go dial up, it will be too expensive to justify participation. I strongly support

Re: Changes to IEEE emc-pstc web-based services

2003-01-01 Thread John Woodgate
I read in !emc-pstc that Rich Nute ri...@sdd.hp.com wrote (in SR- 547...@ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com) about 'Changes to IEEE emc-pstc web- based services' on Tue, 31 Dec 2002: To the extent that we can, we'd like to move our activity to the web rather than use the listserver. It seems