OK.. I will try and respond to you statements below briefly. #1 The new CDNUSERS.ORG goal is to help users solve software problems. #2 The CDNUSERS forum can be easily accessed by the users. You do not need to login to see the posts and with one click of a topic you can see all the responses to the post. #3 / #4 The users with the email notification will receive your post immediately. One click on the html link will open the web page at the exact location to reply. If the user is logged they will be able reply immediately as well. As long as you setup your email notification on a discussion you will get all the emails as well as the responses in the body of the email.. No need to go to the web site, everything is sent to you via email. The only issue is to post / reply to a discussion you need to do this via the web site and by clicking on the link inside the email it takes you to the post so you can reply. As stated in my previous emails this is something the web team is activity looking into. Please look at the forums at CDNUSERS.ORG to see what I am talking about. You do not need a login to view the threads so you don't even have to register. Thanks for sharing you thoughts, Mike Gennadiy Kiryukhin <genna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>@freelists.org on 03/07/2006 04:30:22 PM Please respond to icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent by: icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Don't shut this list down ! Don't shut this list down ! Purpose of THIS forum (the way I see it): #1. The main purpose of this forum is to help users to solve software related problems as quickly and painlessly as possible. #2. Comes from #1. The forum should be easily and painlessly accessible for the users. I hate using logins/passwords when it comes to accessing information on a web. I don't want to spend 30 minutes browsing through tons of web pages just to be able to see what was posted and trying to figure out what is new and what is old. #3. Comes from #1 and #2 A user should be able to post a message so that as many users as possible would see it. This improves my chances of getting a quick answer. In the web-based forum, a user would have click on the right set of links to get to the page with my message. What are the chances of that happening? #4. Comes from #3 A user should be able to reply to a question as painlessly as possible. To reply to a question on the existing forum I just hit reply button. On the new forum, I would have to open a browser, go to the website, find a link to the forum, navigate to the right discussion category, find the message, be prompted to login (what was my password?)... FYI, the browser will remember your login until you clear the cookies. I look at icu-pcb-forum every time I check my email. All of the latest forum messages are right there highlighted in bold. If I find something useful, I drag-and-drop that message into "useful tricks" folder. If it is something I know a solution for, I hit REPLY, type my suggestion, and hit SEND. Otherwise, I delete a message. That is it and nothing else. Dear Cadence people, PLEASE, DO NOT MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR THE USERS TO USER YOUR TOOLS. One of the reason this forum was created is because the too many features in that software are not intuitive. Users are forces to browse through tons of PDF files with documentation/or sourcelink database in a hope to find a solution, or go to this forum, post a message and get an answer withing 10-15 minutes. Please don't replace this forum with a Rube-Golberg-machine-like web forum. 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