[EricH]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

Also, what would be the impact on the development of technical and organizational white papers if mentors and engineers were not and had not been contributing? Or stopped?

Jane, there wouldn't be a whitepaper section in CD-Media. There'd be one or two mostly-useless papers in obscure threads or in the old papers section.

Now, if there was a sudden stop, then the papers would be there, but they wouldn't be updated, and new ones wouldn't be added. How many teams use JVN's whitepaper on drivetrains? As I recall, he was a college mentor when he wrote that... and certainly when it was updated.

Oh, and another thing about all mentors stopping posting--if they'd stopped a few years ago, AM wouldn't be nearly as popular as it is now.