[USMA:30403] Re: Johnston's Metric Meddlers

2004-07-13 Thread David King
Perhaps the Telegraph believes that anyone with a bellsouth.net email address is a spammer! David Bill Hooper wrote: I'm afraid I continue to fail each time I try to send my letter to the editor responding to the Philip Johnston article in the Daily Telegram. I continue to get the following

[USMA:30404] Re: Johnston's Metric Meddlers

2004-07-13 Thread David King
Or sign up for a UK email account, e.g. mail.yahoo.co.uk David MightyChimp wrote: Well, if they are rejecting any email from outside of the UK, then send it to someone in the UK and have them forward it. Like maybe Chris and Terry. Euric - Original Message - From: "Bill

[USMA:30402] RE: New UKMA initiative Clauses 6.18 to 6.20

2004-07-13 Thread David King
Yes, the same problem for me too, and I am using Mozilla Thunderbird for email. Typographical quotes are more correct and look nicer, but it seems that somewhere in the email system these get changed, due to plain text coding or whatever. David Bill Potts wrote: Pat: Could you please stop

[USMA:30405] Re: Olympic trials on USA Network

2004-07-13 Thread David King
I have always seen coverage of Olympics and other athletics in metric, here in the UK. For the USA to dumb down the measurements to imperial is stupid and deceptive, especially as they will lack accuracy, and when someone converts a metric to imperial to the nearest inch and then someone

[USMA:30407] BBC video report on metric

2004-07-13 Thread Paul Trusten
Here is a 1:22-minute-long BBC report echoing the release of the UKMA report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/40361000/rm/_40361361_metric13_kay_vi.ram Paul Trusten, R.Ph.3609 Caldera Blvd., Apt. 122Midland TX 79707-2872 USA

[USMA:30408] your Metric Meddlers column in the Telegraph

2004-07-13 Thread Paul Trusten
Dear Mr. Johnston, Thank you for yourlively response in the Telegraph concerning the recentUKMA report and themetric system in the U.K.. Although I am a citizen of that country which remains "the exception," I am an avid supporter of the adoption of metric as the official, andeveryday,

[USMA:30411] Fw: Article from Tampa Bay newspaper..............

2004-07-13 Thread MightyChimp
I received this garbage in my email today. If the majority of Americans would read this they would no doubt whole heartedly agree. Now as your reading this, think about metrication and what the author of this trash and those that would agree with it would think about metrication. This is