Hello All,

Yes, John has been an amazing hero to the USA (and international) probe
community for originally hosting this site.
Thank you John for your countless hours of service to our community.

As a bit of history and in response to Allan's suggestion, the SX users
group was created more than 35 year when we could not get
honest answers from Cameca USA about our machine problems. This users'
forum hatched at the University of Hawaii but we lacked the ability to host
it.
John stepped up to probe this service. My point is this forum was created
to address Cameca issues. Yes, there certainly has been issues raised like
lab rates that are not specific to Cameca probes but many of the issues are
specific (e.g., PHA detector or spectrometers).

We have a JEOL probe in Hawaii now and have a new rash of problems that we
get help from the JEOL users networks. Thanks to Annette for hosting this
forum. Yes, we get similar messages sometimes on both forums, but I would
agree we need both networks.

I am sure we (the probe users network) have caused John to lose many hours
of more productive time in helping us with our problems. He is now retired
and I wish him well in finding new avenues to be fulfilled.

Aloha to all, Mike Garcia
Retired



On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 11:58 PM Allaz Julien <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Dear John, dear microprobers,
>
> First and foremost, thank YOU very much, John Fournelle, for taking care
> of this email list and ensuring it is still working! It has been of utmost
> importance to my career throughout the years (since ~ 2009, but I know it
> has been running for much much longer)!
>
> Just throwing an idea here… As maybe some of you do, I am subscribed to
> “other” probe email listing that is managed by Anette von der Handt in
> Minneapolis (JEOL-Focused Probe Users List [log in to unmask]; CC’d
> on this thread). If the same problem is happening at UMN, maybe the force
> could be unified, and we could just have two “simple” google or whatever
> emailing lists with name such as “CAMECA-user” (or the one you choose,
> John, after all the “SX50-users” has an historical value!) and “JEOL-user”,
> and even a more global “EPMA-user” group… After all, a problem with one can
> be a problem with the other, too, and even if I’m now a J-user, I still low
> to read the conversation on the SX-50 list :)
>
> Take care of yourself and your close relatives & friends, and be a super
> probe-hero: wear a mask!
>
>
> Julien
>
>
> On 11 Nov 2020, at 16:44, John H Fournelle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Colleagues, Friends and Fellow Travelers:
>
> Our university, like many others(?), is changing how it handles electronic
> communications and software. I believe this list now is using the 3rd
> different software from what it started with back around 1993 or so (times
> flies).
> The university in all its wisdom (?) is now moving its handling of lists
> to “Google Groups”, and it should happen in the next day or so.
>
> The new list will be called <[log in to unmask]> and should
> presumably operate in a similar manner as before.
>
> I am told there will be archiving capability--assuming I remember to turn
> it on ;)
>
> I have been told that the “old” archives cannot be migrated to the new
> structure; however, I have had a download of the current archive and hope
> to be able to find a way to publish this archive as well as older ones I
> have on file somewhere. There is much valuable (still) information, at
> least for some of us.
>
> There are 240 subscribers (nominally) to this list, FYI.
>
> Cheerio….
>
> John
> =============================
> John Fournelle, Ph.D.
> Senior Scientist Emeritus
> Electron Probe and SEM Labs
> University of Wisconsin
> Dept of Geoscience
> 1215 West Dayton Street
> Madison, Wisconsin 53706
> Cell 608-438-7480
>
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