This exchange is in reverse chronological order. Web site in question is at http://www.analyticalsci.com/. --Bruce ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 19:07:14 -0500 From: Jim Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Bruce Raup' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Units of measure in your web site Thanks for your suggestion. We are planning on redoing the site and I will be sure to instruct the people responsible for accomplishing the task to put both metric and equalivant in the descriptions. Jim Aldrich Analytical Scientific, Ltd. -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Raup [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 2:24 PM To: Jim Aldrich Subject: Units of measure in your web site Dear Jim Aldrich: I happily discovered your web site recently, and have enjoyed perusing its pages. I expect I will succumb to temptation sometime soon and become a customer. However, while looking at your optics page (and possibly others), I was disappointed to see dimensions of many products given only in English units. As you know, science throughout the world -- even the US -- is done in SI units. With pressures stemming from international trade and elsewhere, it is inevitable that the US generally will follow the science sector's lead and convert to metric. The auto industry, for example, has already done so. I write to urge you to take a leadership stance and use metric units for product specifications on your web site, or, at the very least, give metric equivalents for English-sized products. Information on the World Wide Web ought to be in World Wide Units. Thanks, Bruce -- Bruce Raup National Snow and Ice Data Center Phone: 303-492-8814 University of Colorado, 449 UCB Fax: 303-492-2468 Boulder, CO 80309-0449 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
