Si-listers: The ongoing thread of discussion about traces causing or not causing EMI has fostered some interesting technical discussion over the past week. However it seems that the discussion has begun to spiral out of control and is degenerating into what can be interpreted as personal attacks on the part of some participants. Si-list has, for the most part, been a great example of how a group of 3500+ technical professionals from a diverse set of backgrounds can interact and exchange ideas and information relative to their areas of expertise. When personal attacks creep into the message threads that impune other's opinions and tend towards disrespect, the general tone of the entire reflector suffers. I would ask those amongst us who have been a little overzealous with their comments and accusations to please limit their comments to technical issues and to refrain from further inflammatory postings. Hopefully this gentle reminder will get things back on track. Apologies to those subscribers who have been offended by some of the interchanges. Let the technical discussions resume :) Ray Anderson (si-list admininstrator) ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu