Austin, I wasn't going to send a reply to this nor do I believe you or anyone else is expecting one, anyway I will provide my two cents. There has been a lot of conversations on the PCB forum surrounding this transition and believe me I agree with alot that has been stated but there is some comments which I don't agree with. I personally have been working with Cadence over the past year to provide feedback on how we can improve the web site and forums on cdnusers.org and they have been very accommodating. I am a user of Cadence Tools just like the rest of you and my only goal is to improve communication between users that are on this list as well as some that do not know we even exist. I do not have an hidden agenda nor does the Carl, Randy and Charlie which decided that it was best to transition to the cdnusers.org forums. I would add Andreas to this list but it is clear he is no longer backing this transition but was included with the discussions and decision. For folks that have know me for a long time know that I am only out for the good of the user community and nothing more.. To be perfectly clear Cadence had nothing to do with this transition except that have a web site that the web site can support forums and has a much cleaner/flexible web interface that Freelist.org can only dream of having. Cadence suggested that we think about moving the PCB Forum over to cdnusers.org - it was not mandated. I may not be the owner of the PCB Forum but I am one of the founders that has been here supporting this list since the beginning when we only had a small group of users that attended the ICU. We started out on cadenceusers.org then moved to Topica.com and now Freelists.org. My only regret is that during the transition to Freelists.org I should of remained the owner of the list because it appears my voice has no weight to some people due to that fact. I have and will continue to forward everyone's requests/comments to Cadence on how we can improve the cdnusers.org web site and forums to try to address the issues. I will send out updates on the issues so it is not assumed that they went directly to my trash can. Thanks for listening, Mike "austin@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>@freelists.org on 03/09/2006 06:33:38 AM Please respond to icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent by: icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: New www.cdnusers.org forum - suggestions (was -Re: Don't shut this blah blah Hi Richard, > First, please read my posting about "resistance to change". It is human nature to resist change, but change in and of it self is not necessarily good, or bad. From what I can tell, this is not a change that is solving any issues/problem with this list, so I see no rational reason for changing. It appears that this change was made to satisfy an agenda which is not necessarily coincident with the members of this list. 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 ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------