The mailing list is maintained using the Smartlist software package. This package has inbuilt checks to help prevent mail explosions, and we hope that it is successful in preventing this. It will check for administrative requests posted to the list and has some success with these. It is virtually impossible to achieve interoperability of equipment from different suppliers without special drivers and interfaces. Standards do exist, but they are not complete.
Different vendors couple the standards together in different ways.
There have been many specifications produced which demanded adherence to specific internationally accepted standards, but there is no general acceptance of a subset of standards that should be used in any given application. This is an industry problem. It can be solved but only by an industry wide approach to demand interoperability of equipment, especially with field Remote Terminal Units. It is surprising how few standards are required to achieve interoperability. Anything you wish.