The PICList is a collection of people interested in the Microchip PIC and other similar processors who have requested that email sent to the PICList email address be forwarded to them. From the mass mind of these people the following have grown:
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.
The PICList is currently experimenting with the use of 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, enclosed in brackets "[" and "]" and followed by a colon ":". For example, the current topics are:
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 [AD]:.
Please pick ONE that matches the subject of your post and type it at the start of the subject line (don't forget the colon) and then continue. Putting a topic tag in, filters the post IN to that topic rather than filtering it OUT of the other topics like it used to. Ok? Let me say that again...
Putting a topic tag in, filters the post IN to that topic rather than filtering it OUT of the other topics like it used to.
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 sending SET PICLIST TOPICS: [PIC] to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
You can now turn on or off any of the topic channels by sending SET PICLIST TOPICS: followed by a plus or minus sign and the topic tag (without the colon) to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU.
If you don't want advertisements, click on:
mailto:LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU?body=SET%20PICLIST%20TOPICS:%20-%5BAD%5D
or if you do:
mailto:LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU?body=SET%20PICLIST%20TOPICS:%20+%5BAD%5D
If you don't want posts that are not about PICs or at least electrical
engineering, turn off the [OT]: channel by clicking on:
mailto:LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU?body=SET%20PICLIST%20TOPICS:%20-%5BOT%5D
when you get board try:
mailto:LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU?body=SET%20PICLIST%20TOPICS:%20+%5BOT%5D
For no general engineering (but still PIC engineering) posts use:
mailto:LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU?body=SET%20PICLIST%20TOPICS:%20-%5BEE%5D
or turn [EE]: back on with
mailto:LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU?body=SET%20PICLIST%20TOPICS:%20+%5BEE%5D
If you don't care to hear about the Atmel AVR processors, click on:
mailto:LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU?body=SET%20PICLIST%20TOPICS:%20-%5BAVR%5D
or if you do:
mailto:LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU?body=SET%20PICLIST%20TOPICS:%20+%5BAVR%5D
If you don't care to hear about the Scenix SX processors, click on:
mailto:LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU?body=SET%20PICLIST%20TOPICS:%20-%5BSX%5D
or if you do:
mailto:LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU?body=SET%20PICLIST%20TOPICS:%20+%5BSX%5D
One special channel that should be mentioned is the Other: channel. This
is were posts that don't have the correct topic tags are sent. If you are
seeing untagged post, you have the Other: channel enabled. You can turn off
the Other: channel by sending
SET
PICLIST TOPICS: -Other to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
mailto:LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU?body=SET%20PICLIST%20TOPICS:%20-other
We have included the brackets in most topic tags so that people can subscribe to both [PIC]: and [OT]: and then filter the [OT]:'s into another folder for later (low priority) reading... or other such stuff like that.
[ADMIN]: posts (about the list but not related to the list topic) will be sent to topic ALL: which is a special tag that sends the message to all subscribers no matter what. We will still include [ADMIN]: after the ALL: to let people know that it is an admin post.
If you have enjoyed the PICList and learned from it or used designs and ideas posted by its members, please consider supporting the PICList by honoring its major contributors with a small donation or a word of thanks.
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