To All Members, I guess I created a minor fire storm so let me try to clarify the issue. You are receiving this email from the EMC-PSTC Email List server (hereafter called List). This email list is separate and stand-alone. While it is hosted by the IEEE servers, it is not the same thing as the IEEE On-line Community called IEEE EMC-PSTC Forum (hereafter called Forum). The IEEE has a large number of virtual communities it hosts, for many and sundry different purposes. These are all web site based operations. You log in to the community you are a member of and browse, post questions, read files, chat, search archives, whatever. In order to get a login to these communities, you need to get an IEEE login. You need not be a member of IEEE, you can get a guest login. That same login is what you use to log in to the Forum.
The List, on the other hand, is not web site based. It is nothing more than some software that receives email messages, looks at its list of subscribers, then forwards copies of all email received back out to the subscribers of the list. The software is smart enough to not accept (it rejects) any email that it receives that did not come from one of its subscribers. It does this based on email addresses. There is no login, no user name, no password. If the email address of the sender does not match one of the email addresses in its subscriber list, the email is rejected. You can subscribe to this email list by using the web-based interface provided in the Forum. You can just as easily subscribe to this email list by sending an email with the right text commands to the right email address. What started this all is the Housekeeping email I sent out. I broadcast it to all members of the Forum. Then I also, just to be extra safe and nice for those that do not regularly login to the forum, copied that email and sent it to the List. Silly me. This is not an exercise to drum up new members for the Forum. Nor is it an exercise in arbitrarily deleting non-visiting members of the Forum. It also is not an effort to remove subscribers from the List. It was meant to be a simple clean-up, to eliminate duplication, errors, old addresses you long forgot you used, or from a previous job, etc. Based on the number of responses received already today, more than a few of you have had problems logging in to the Forum, have had issues using the Forum, have had user name and password rejections. And, I suppose a number have simply given up trying to make use of the Forum. Our effort here is to correct these kinds of problems so to make the Forum more responsive and more likely to be used more frequently than once every four years. Please rest assured that every email we receive regarding issues with the Forum or the List will be reviewed and resolved as best as we can. For the immediate term, please have a little patience as we work through your questions and comments. Best regards, Scott Douglas EMC-PSTC System Admin - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to emc-p...@ieee.org Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas emcp...@ptcnh.net Mike Cantwell mcantw...@ieee.org For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org David Heald: emc-p...@daveheald.com All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
