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Q : How do I join / use the PICList?
A : Step by step:
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First, you check the PICList.com PIC
FAQ at http://www.piclist.com/faq or the
SX
FAQ at http://www.sxlist.com and search the
Archives. to get an instant answer without wasting
anyone's time.
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Second, you must be subscribed to the list (not the piclist.com site)
to post to the list and you must send from the email address you subscribed
from. If you want to subscribe, unsubscribe or change your list options,
then please visit the
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page at
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Third you must compose a message to
piclistspam at TakeThisOuTmit.edu that will elicit
help.
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The subject should be as complete a description of the problem as is possible
in 60 characters or so. Compress and distill.
TOPICS:
Important: The PICList uses topics to help keep track
of various threads and off-topic posts. Therefore, your subject line must
start with ONE (and only one) of these labels:
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[PIC] Should be at the start of the subject line for most postings to the
PICList. This says that a PIC microcontroller (or clone) is directly involved,
connected or the entire subject of the post. Any person who works with PICs
would want to read it...
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[SX] Items specific to the Scenix SX microcontrollers
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[AVR] Items specific to the Atmel AVR microcontrollers
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[ARM] Items specific to ARM microcontrollers
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[EE] The doing of EE that you can do yourself. Power stations go into TECH
unless it's a power station that you can build. So too eg Magnetohydrodynamics
etc. Windmill alternators and related systems and alternate energy at the
doing level go into EE. Windfarms into TECH. etc
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[TECH] About technology, Engineering other than EE, science hard stuff. NOT
the philosophy of science in any depth. New discoveries in QM, cosmology
etc are fine. Almost anything that gets a long thread that diverges can probably
evolve into OT once people know it exists. Those who care can follow it.
eg Global Warming is TECH at the latest discoveries level but not discussions
of "An inconvenient truth" or "The great global warming swindle" etc. This
may rate an occasional mention in TECH but long ramblings can go to OT.
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[BUY] People looking for parts, equipment, or consultants will use this topic.
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[AD] This is for advertisements of a commercial product or service. Don't
spam, do post [AD]!
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[OT] This label is for posts that are completely off the topic of
engineering/technology. The only things we don't ever want to see are
religious/metaphysical, sex, hate, or political messages.
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If you are selling something PIC related, limit your posts to new product
announcements or replies to other members questions and always add
[AD] to the beginning
of the subject line.
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CONTENT: The body should
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- be in plain text, not HTML. (see:
emailformat for more information)
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- be a detailed description of the problem in as few words as possible.
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- If you have a web page, post a verbose description of the problem to it
and put the full URL of that page in your post (include the http:// ) along
with a summary of the problem.
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- include what you are trying to do (overall), what you expected to have
happen at this point, what you are seeing, and how you are seeing it (what
test equipment, etc...)
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- Include specific part numbers, code snippets (not the full source, please),
and signal descriptions.
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Finally, read your message over again, check the subject line and press send.
You may not see your message echoed on the PIClist, and it may take more
than a day before anyone responds since most people only read their PICList
mail once a day and they are all over the world. If no one responds after
a few days, read the rest of this page, and Myke Predko's
general list guidelines at
www.piclist.com/../listguide, rethink your
post and add a "Nobody responded to my last post, what am I doing wrong?"
to the beginning and send it again.
If you decide to leave, you may unsubscribe at the
PICList Mailman
page
The PICList uses topics and topic filtering to try to allow a greater range
of discussion while still respecting the fact that many hardcore engineers,
who are valuable resources to the list, may have little time to read off
topic posts and need a reliable way to filter them out so that they can spend
what time they have concentrating on the topic they are most interested in.
Despite our name, the PICList also hosts discussions related to other embedded
controllers.
Topic tags must be at the start of the subject line and enclosed in brackets
"[" and "]". For example, the current topics are:
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[PIC] Should be at the start of the subject line for most postings to the
PICList. This says that a PIC microcontroller (or clone) is directly involved,
connected or the entire subject of the post. Any person who works with PICs
would want to read it...
-
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[SX] Items specific to the Scenix SX microcontrollers
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[AVR] Items specific to the Atmel AVR microcontrollers
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[ARM] Items specific to ARM microcontrollers
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[EE] The doing of EE that you can do yourself. Power stations go into TECH
unless it's a power station that you can build. So too eg Magnetohydrodynamics
etc. Windmill alternators and related systems and alternate energy at the
doing level go into EE. Windfarms into TECH. etc
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[TECH] About technology, Engineering other than EE, science hard stuff. NOT
the philosophy of science in any depth. New discoveries in QM, cosmology
etc are fine. Almost anything that gets a long thread that diverges can probably
evolve into OT once people know it exists. Those who care can follow it.
eg Global Warming is TECH at the latest discoveries level but not discussions
of "An inconvenient truth" or "The great global warming swindle" etc. This
may rate an occasional mention in TECH but long ramblings can go to OT.
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[BUY] People looking for parts, equipment, or consultants will use this topic.
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[AD] This is for advertisements of a commercial product or service. Don't
spam, do post [AD]!
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[OT] This label is for posts that are completely off the topic of
engineering/technology. The only things we don't ever want to see are
religious/metaphysical, sex, hate, or political messages.
If you don't use one of these, other people will not see your posts. People
who are interested only in the PIC itself listen to [PIC], people who are
also interested in general engineering issues still listen to [PIC] and also
listen to [EE] and people who are also interested in anything PICListers
have to say also listen to [OT]. People who are interested in buying or selling
also listen to [BUY] and [AD].
So: Please pick ONE that matches the subject of your post and type it at
the start of the subject line and then continue. Putting a topic tag in,
filters the post IN to that topic rather than filtering it OUT of the other
topics. Ok? Let me say that again...
Putting a topic tag in, filters the post IN to that topic.
The point of this is that it will reduce the likelihood of people posting
comments about the space program with [PIC] at the start of the subject line.
It also breaks up the PICList in to "Channels" where each topic can be turned
on or off with a command to the list server. If you are very busy, then you
can only turn on the [PIC] channel and turn the others off. Just tell the
list server to only send [PIC] topics by changing your Mailman options at
the PICList Mailman
page.
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