On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 12:22:36 -0700, "Dennis Brownridge"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I think we make a huge mistake by pushing ISO paper sizes. It's not an SI
>issue at all, and it just inflames people against SI if we promote the
>irrational ISO sizes as "metric."
The ubiquity of A4 paper was one of the most potent signs to me that
the UK was serious about going metric.
Just as i don't consider labelling a milk carton '568 ml' as going
metric, neither do I think continued use of 10x8" paper described as
254 x 203 mm would have been thought of as going metric.
--
Chris KEENAN
UK Metrication: http://www.metric.org.uk/
UK Correspondent, US Metric Association
