A laudable approach in deed. Shall look forward! Brij B.Vij
>From: Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [USMA:21849] RE: Off-topic discussions and alternative fora >Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:53:59 +0100 > >"Hillger, Don" wrote on 2002-08-20 15:01 UTC: > > Wait a minute!!! How about we just don't post off topic issues. This > > is the USMA metric discussion list!!! > >I suspect for a number of people here, this is one of just a very small >set of discussion lists, and they are in particular not familiar with >the USENET newsgroups discussion system, where there are discussion >groups such as soc.culture.usa and soc.culture.europe dedicated to a >large number of the off-topic postings here. > >If you are not familiar with the USENET discussion system, you can have >a quick look at it on groups.google.com, which is a popular archiving >web interface to it, but the better way to use USENET groups is to >install your own newsreader software on your PC and configure it to >connect to the news server of your local internet service provider. This >gives better performance and the newsreader will memorize which articles >you have already seen before. A fairly good freely available newsreader >is built into the Mozilla web browser for example, but there are dozens >of others. > >Apropos newsgroups: The 21 day discussion period for the new group >proposal misc.metric-system has ended today, a vote taker has been >assigned, and he will post the Call For Vote message in the next few >days to news.announce.newgroups. I will forward it here when that has >happened. You can then vote in favour or against the creation of a >dedicated worldwide USENET discussion group on SI and metrication, which >I hope you will all do. You can follow the proceedings in the daily >posted UVV CFV status report in news.groups. > >Markus > >-- >Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK >Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
