I would like to throw out a suggestion to reduce the amount of irrelevant and contentious mail tying up the SI-LIST reflector and participants' mailboxes: If you judge a query to be either stupid, trivial, politically incorrect, or offensive, then just don't reply. For example, how do I start designing high speed circuits, where can I get free software, why don't US companies hire more or fewer engineers from country XYZ, etc. If you feel compelled to argue with the sender, then "reply to sender," not "reply to all." If you want to help the person asking the question and you feel you have a valid answer to their question, then by all means reply and share the answer with the rest of us. Just my humble opinions. Art Porter Agilent Technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net 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