On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 11:41, Rob Hamerling wrote: > {I have tried to sent this msg about 10 hours ago, but so far it didn't > show up here. Sorry if it appears twice}. > > Apparently MicroChip has made a 'selective' change in sample policy. > When I tried to order some samples last night I found the following > informative message: > > > Effective September 22, 2004, the Microchip Samples site will no > > longer allow sample orders from generic ISP accounts in Belgium, > > Canada, Greece, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, > > South Korea, and Spain. If you find that your sample order has > > been refused, please visit the buy.microchip.com site where you > > may purchase the parts, or contact your local sales representative > > for assistance. > > No indication of a reason nor an explanation why these countries in > particular and not some other (neighbouring) countries like Germany, > France, UK. On top of that they seem to have instilled a limit per domain as well. When I used my work email (big computer graphics company) I got a message stating that too many orders came from my "address group", or something like that. I tried again with my home email address and that worked. Go figure. TTYL ----------------------------- Herbert's PIC Stuff: http://repatch.dyndns.org:8383/pic_stuff/ _______________________________________________ http://www.piclist.com View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist