Just a reminder that operation of the IPC electronic forums is supported by the members of IPC. The forums provide an opportunity for members to ask questions and exchange information.  IPC staff may occasionally post information deemed to be of interest to our members regarding IPC sponsored conferences, workshops, seminars, etc.

When responding to a request for assistance, we recognize that sometimes company or product identification is inevitable.  Appropriate responses include statements such as as a brief tutorial kind of statement with technical information, followed by "We may be able to provide such a product/service.  Please contact me off-net at ......"

Signature files that include name/title/company/phone/fax/e-mail/website are pretty much standard and acceptable, but should not include advertising paragraphs, new product release promotions, etc.  If you don't know how to keep such info out of the signature file, please don't post to the forums.

It is NEVER appropriate to place blatant advertisements of products or services without a direct link to a members request.  A reply to a request that requires product/service descriptive information should be done off-net directly to the requester.

Remember that offending your customers and peers doesn't gain you business; it's likely to have the opposite effect.

Thanks to all for sharing your knowledge; the number of postings shows the value.  And when usage seems low, we just mess with the bits and bytes and make the list server send things 2-3 times so it all looks better.  :-)

Jack


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APEX - the industry's premier trade show in Electronics
Manufacturing, January 16-18, 2001, San Diego, California.
More information on website www.apex2001.org
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