Hi
everyone,
We
hear you! We hear you!
We
at Agilent strive to give our customers the best possible and we believe in
many ways the forum will benefit everyone in the long run. Here’s some
quick benefits:
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track down and read (same topic arranged within same thread)
2. Searching vrf
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me on automatically each visit’.
7. Keeps stringent email servers
at bay (some company email servers reject emails or filter off attachments in
mailing lists). We received complaints from users that vrf emails have lost
attachments.
We
did evaluate using mail2forum, but phpbb
version 3 does not support this cool application to allow communication between
mailing lists and forums. Good news is, v2.0 is under development
right now.
As
for the issue with the hard-to-read confirmation code, we have reported this to
the admin to look into.
However,
having said that, we do TRULY understand your valid concerns and the sheer
heritage of this very unique mailing list, hence we will KEEP THE vrf MAILING LIST GOING
indefinitely while we find a better solution that works best for all. Just as
how Shawn puts it: “working together (all of us) I'm sure we can come up with
something that everyone will be happy with in the next few months.”
In
the meantime, do keep your ideas / comments / rants rolling in!
Thanks
for all your valuable feedback and support!
Cheers,
Edwin Hoh
Basic Instruments Division
Agilent Technologies
Tel: +604-680 5414
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