I concur with the comments from K. Richardson, Chris Dupres, Kaz Gawrzyjal, and Tania.
I also have no problems with receiving the EMC-PSTC (ElectroMagnetic Compatbility - Product Safety Technical Committee) discussion topics because I am responsible to both EMC and Safety. One time I had returned to the office, after being away for several days, and found over 200 messages. What did I do? I filtered what I needed from what I wanted to scrap. Then I quickly read through what I needed and either archived or deleted discussions. Done. The EMC-PSTC has been a convenient tool for getting a feel of issues from the real world of EMC and Safety from one location by a single subscription. And for those of you who also have EMC-Safety responsibilities or interests, either solely or combined, you to will benefit from convenient EMC-PSTC forums contents from a single location. The following may not be a very good analogy but, this split reminds me of reading the newspaper. Could you imagine subscribing to the DAILY CHRONICLE. Which would you prefer? A subscription to a newspaper with a National, Local, Sports, Business, Entertainment, and Classified sections, etc, or, a newspaper that only contains one section, and any other sections of interest you would get from a multitude of other newspapers? Let's keep EMC-PSTC As Is for now. -----Original Message----- From: cdup...@cs.com [mailto:cdup...@cs.com] Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2000 3:19 AM To: rl...@tectrol.com; emc-p...@ieee.org Subject: Re: EMC and product safety split? Hi Rob. You wrote: <Is there any possibility of getting the EMC and product safety postings partitioned ~ to assist in cutting surplus mail traffic?> The name of the List is EMC-PSTC, (ElectroMagnetic Compatbility - Product Safety Technical Committee) i.e. it' covers all the material required for getting equipment documented for compliance to current legislation, in my case European rules. For that reason I find the mix both very useful and convenient. I already have far too many folders, and if the messages were seperated into two subjects I would still need to merge them into one 'Compliance' folder. I've been on this list for four or five years now, and look on it as a learned source of all things 'Compliance', rather than the actual minutae of Safety and EMC protection. The list is as much to do with the bureacracy of Compliance, the UL, NEC, BS, DIN, standards, rules, regulations, laws etc., as much as with the actual Engineering of compliant performance, filters, materials, fuses and so on. I don't need to be told how to screen, filter, fuse, cover, insulate. Those are basic Engineering matters. I do, however, need to know what I should concentrate on, what limits to work to, when I should do it, and what paperwork I will need. I would find the splitting up of the list would deviate from the original purpose of the list, and become less informative and useful. Indeed it's the width of the list that makes it much more valuable. I delete an awful lot of EMC-PSTC mail, it takes just seconds to ascetain whether to keep or chuck, but I still get gems in both Safety and EMC matters and I do check everything that comes from the list. Just my twopence worth... Chris Dupres Surrey, UK. ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: jim_bac...@mail.monarch.com Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: jim_bac...@mail.monarch.com Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org
