Hi John, There are already some good forums about Electronics Production, like the one on www.smtnet.com. And there are the Technet-archives which you can search and browse, comparable to browsing through a vBulletin forum. Within very short term I'm planning to have a forum on my own website (www.smtinfo.net) which will have all the advantages of the latest forum software, and I hope it will be a valuable addition to the good stuff that's already available. I wish you all the best in your new job ! Daan Terstegge Thales Communications Unclassified mail Personal Website: http://www.smtinfo.net >>> [log in to unmask] 09/03/03 03:16pm >>> As an employee of a cable house/electronic assembly plant, I have found many uses for this forum. I'm a cable/crimp/press/tooling guy more than a PCB guy, but my daily mailings have educated me quite a bit in this field... I'm moving on to an outside Sales position here at Badger Technologies, and plan to utilize all I've learned to the fullest extent, some of the information can be sourced back to this forum, which I've found to be very benificial. I'm going to unsubscribe today, but may sign back on with another email address soon, an address just for TechNet stuff :)... ... What about a vBulletin/phpp style forum format? Has anyone thought of that? My other main squeeze of a forum, www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/ , is built this way (if you're into video cards, check it out! My ID there is ragejg... THIS IS NOT SPAM ;) ) That kind of format makes for easy navigation betweeen and through topics... Not that I've had any problems with the "email-style forum"... :) Also, does anyone know if a forum is being put together for the new 620 standards? Cable houses really could use it, as they're much more loosely connected than PCB houses IMO... I'll correspond back here a couple more times today maybe, but this is pretty much my good-bye. Thank you *everyone* who has helped me and my company out. I'll never underestimate the value of this community or its members. Best Regards, John Grabski III Badger Technologies, Inc. www.badgertech.com --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 -----------------------------------------------------