----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, 2001-03-31 15:48 Subject: Yahoo! Clubs Metric America > Dear Friends of Metrication: > > What do YOU consider to be our goals? > What do you consider to be worst case goals? > What do you consider to be best case goals? > What are we trying to do? > Do we hope for metrication merely someday? > Do we think we are doing something useful... > even if the U.S. were NEVER to go metric? > Do we hope for metrication right now? > Do we hope, generally, in some sloppy way, > for the U.S. to be metric, more or less, > say, in 5 years? 10 years? > > Please come comment right now with your own > personal thoughts about what are our goals, > about what ought to be our goals, about what > you consider to be doable, what you consider > to be dreamland? > > Let's get on the same page. > > What are we doing? > How soon do we hope to get there? > > Thanks. > Andy Johnson > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/metricAmerica > > P.S. I sincerely believe that our goals ought > to include some immediate pro-metric achievements, > but this is quite ridiculous on my part, if there > are no others out there with my impatience. If > the best anyone hopes for is some progress toward > metrication in another 10 years, if even the pro- > metric folks believe not much can be done right this > minute, then it is nearly absurd for me to hope for > any progress this year. As for me, I sincerely do > believe that much can be done right now this year. > But there must be a handful of rabidly pro-metric > folks who will push things. Are there any such > fanatics available?
