[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2002-06-29 18:06 UTC:
> Yes. I use outlook and have a similar problem. I press 'Reply to all'
> and then have to go to the extra trouble of deleting the authors address
> in the To field, and adding my [EMAIL PROTECTED] address in
> the From field.

The easy solution used in many other mailing lists is that the list
server is configured to automatically add the header line

  Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

to all messages. This allows everyone simply to press the reply key to
follow up on a posting. The disadvantage is that private replies become
more cumbersome (and many end up being posted publicly by accident), but
most consider that to be the lesser evil today.

> I have often wondered whether we could have a metrication newsgroup. It
> would not only be technically easer but it might be interesting to have
> a more open forum. What do people think?

Sounds like a good idea to me. "comp.std.internat" sometimes has related
discussions already, but it is really a computer standards group.

I'd suggest

  misc.metric-system

(but I could also live with soc.metrication).

The proposal/discussion/voting process necessary to create a new USENT
group in the Big-8 hierarchy is described in

  http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/big-eight.html

Any volunteer here eager to take care of that process? (It's been over
ten years since I created a newsgroup, so I'm happy to leave this one to
a member of a younger generation.)

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>

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