Hi Randy, > 1. There is official support/monitoring by Cadence technical staff. They can (and do) monitor this list as well. > 2. I like that the different SPB specialties/subjects are split into > dedicated forums for, Modeling, SI, PCB Design, IC packaging and SKILL. > That way I can filter the incoming e-mail and pay closest attention to > the subjects I care about the most. That is the same as different email lists. > 3. The cdnusers site offers one-stop shopping for a variety of user > goodies over and above the forum. These unspecified "goodies" can exist without "moving" the mailing list to this new "forum". > 4. To quote myself: " In addition to the normal forum posts that you are > accustomed to seeing on Freelists, the moderators will also be > initiating specific technical discussions. And that can happen here as well. Nothin about an email list precludes this. > 5. The cdnusers forums will ultimately be exposed to more users which > equates to an overall larger community knowledge base. How so? Anyone who can use the new cdn "forum" can subscribe to this email list. Sorry for being a curmudgeon, but I just haven't heard a thing of substance that necessitates this change. Regards, Austin -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ----------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe/unsubscribe: Send a message to icu-pcb-forum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of subscribe or unsubscribe To view the archives of this list please login at //www.freelists.org. Our list name is icu-pcb-forum or go to //www.freelists.org/archives/icu-pcb-forum/ Problems or Questions: Send an email to icu-pcb-forum-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Want to post a job listing ? DON'T DO IT HERE! Better yet, join our jobs listing forum. SUBSCRIBE: icu-jobs-forum-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxx POST: icu-jobs-forum@xxxxxxxxxx -----------------------------------------------------------