All we got to do is have the cops bust people for driving too fast in meters. That will convert people over real quick.
Mike Gratton wrote: > > > Buford T. Justice wrote: > >> Like the line option is of any importance unless you are sniffing >> cocaine. >> > > Oh, I don't know.. it's not *that* important when you're sniffing cocaine. > > Anyway, # of lines is just another arbitarty way of measuring the length > of a message, just like using imerial units for measuring just about > anything instead of good ol' metric - the only reason reason people are > still using imperial units these days is because of a historical > preccedent. Same with measuring USENET posts in lines. You get used to > it after a while. > > Tell you what, you convert the US over to metric, I'll write a patch to > display the length of USENET posts in Mb/Kb. > > ^_^ >
