Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 11:13:54 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: For the Cameca SX50 community; input please!
From: Carl Henderson
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On Wed, 28 Jun 1995 johnf@geology.wisc.edu wrote:
> To: Cameca SX50 community
> From: John Fournelle
> Re: Two items of some importance
>
> Item #1
> I have had, a while ago, and then in the past few days, requests to
> "join" our SX50 internet users group, from individuals who are not, in
> the strict sense of the word, SX50 users, i.e., potential owners (labs
> who were evaluating the SX50/100), and former employees of Cameca Inc.
> The main question, with this feedback coming from Cameca Inc, has to do
> with the latter category,and seems to boil down to a) whether these
> individuals might give 'bad' advice to users that might not be recognized
> as such, and b) whether letting into the users group these individuals
> (who are in business for themselves) might be detrimental to Cameca Inc.
>
>
> What to do? I think we need to formalize membership to some extent.
> What do you think? Should we draw the line somewhere? Where?
>
As long as this list is not operated by CAMECA Instruments, I see no
reason to exclude anyone who is interested in SX50 operations.
If someone starts giving out proprietary information over
CAMECA's objections, this would be a problem and is probably illegal.
If CAMECA feels that bad advice has been giving out over the network, then
they can refute the information in a followup message. Indeed, if CAMECA
is interested in discrediting opinions and suggestions by others, then
this electronic forum provides them an opportunity to do so.
One of the caveats of using the Internet is to never take as the gospel
anything that you read in an email message (unless of course it comes
from CAMECA ;-) ).
Take these opinions as you like, as I fall into the category of someone
who is not an official SX50 user!
Regards,
Carl
Carl Henderson
Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory
University of Michigan
2005 C.C. Little Bldg.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1063 USA
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