FW: objection to Olde English measurements Yes, they complied so well with this request that the defaults in all languages are in ifp. They are nothing less than bootlickers. And in one of their messages to me, they denied it! They incorrectly claimed that only the English language defaults to yards and miles. Han ----- Original Message ----- From: Barbara and/or Bill Hooper To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 4:31 AM Subject: [USMA:14757] FW: objection to Olde English measurements Here is the repy I received from Maporama (followed by my message to which he/she was responding): ---------- From: "Julien TESSIER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: objection to Olde English measurements Hello, First of all, I thank you for the interest you have for our website and I hope it will be useful in your daily life. As for your mail, The unit measure we used before as default was the metric system. Many American and British users did ask us to change it, in order to have the mile and yard system as default. Metric system is still available on our English service and you can personalise it. Maporama website quality is our #1 priority and thanks to your comments we will keep on reducing the error rate to 0 and ameliorate the quality of our service. Thank you for your help and the faithfulness you give us. Regards.No�l Lebeaupin, webmaster. PS : for further information or any problem please continue to mail us at the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address. -----Original Message----- From: Barbara and/or Bill Hooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: vendredi 3 ao�t 2001 04:18 To: List_Webmaster Subject: objection to Olde English measurements Bon Jour! I tried to use your web site to get an itinerary from my cousin's home in Hemer, Germany to his vacation home in Obermaiselstein, Germany and was annoyed to find the information came up in MILES! Why would anyone driving in Germany want or need the information in miles? The road signs in Germany are in kilometres and the instruments on the dashboard of the rental car provide distances in kilometres and speeds in kilometres per hour. How can I use a set of directions in miles when all the information I see while on the trip is in kilometres? I did belatedly find that I could click on a special button to get the information in kilometres, but why should I have to waste my time doing this extra step? I don't understand why you degrade the quality and usefulness your otherwise fine and useful web site by providing information in outmoded Olde English measures. (Dr.) William Hooper Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
