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Hi, there,

I am look for "Hyphenated Techniques", in GCMS LCMS board, the read this first mentioned to put question about LCMSMS in "Hyphenated Techniques" board. However, I can't find it here. Does anyone know where it is? Thanks in advance.

The "LC-MS, GC-MS, and other" board was originally called "hyphenated techniques", but some people felt that title was confusing. The name change happened a couple of years ago but some people (including me) still tend to use the old name.

The "LC-MS, GC-MS, and other" board was originally called "hyphenated techniques", but some people felt that title was confusing. The name change happened a couple of years ago but some people (including me) still tend to use the old name.

Thanks a lot for your prompt response. In LCMS, GC-MS and others, there are a lot of information about GCMS rather than LCMSMS.
One suggestion: could you split LCMS and GCMS into two parts?

Sorry about the delay in replying; I lost track of this thread.

I *can* subdivide the board further, but I'd rather not. The issue is one of "critical mass" versus "unwieldy". I understand your point, but enough of the topics in the LC-MS, GC-MS, etc section deal with the "MS" part, that I think splitting it would be counterproductive.

Sometimes, separation can be *too* good!

Seriously, though, I just went back and looked at the threads on the current page. I did a "quick and dirty" subdivide into four categories based on whether the information was fairly specific to GC-MS or LC-MS or whether it was more MS-related (could apply to both GC or LC)

Here's my count:
- GC-MS specific: 13
- LC-MS specific: 11
- MS: 21
- general: 2

Final decision: it still makes more sense to me to leave it as one combined section, so I'm leaving it as-is.

To me the different categoies are mostly rather a nuisance, I usually have no problem picking out what I want to read from the title of a threat.