I am of the opinion that if someone requests specific information on a supplier or process then it is acceptable to supply anecdotal information on specific suppliers including names, address, and phone numbers. In the last day I remember inputs on entec and a supplier, esd and a supplier, flex circuits and suppliers, BGA reclamation and suppliers, bellcore requirements and their supplier, IPC requirements and supplier, flux and suppliers, etc. In a technology as complex and rapidly evolving as electronics, communication is vital to our survival. The knowledge of a supplier that can solve a problem via a proprietary process or product could be the difference between competitiveness and bankruptcy. Can we really afford not to share this information? Denis Meloche Heraeus Cermalloy At 06:09 PM 8/5/97 +0000, you wrote: >Technetters, >Is this how we want to respond to all such inquiries? Does each >manufacturer of a product need to scour technet to make sure we're >included on this type of reference? I appreciate the time that the >person from Seagate took to respond to this query, but they provided >a very limited number of choices. Do we have access to a list of >fabricators on the IPC home page? Should our standard response be to >direct people to search that list of manufacturers to identify those >that meet their needs specifically? I would appreciate some >comments. > >