What puzzles me are the "No" votes. If someone isn't interested, why would they not just abstain, rather than spoiling it for others?
Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >Behalf Of Markus Kuhn >Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 05:02 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:22291] Re: failure to establish metric newsgroup > > >Well, I'm obviously disappointed that the ballot for misc.metric-system >failed. There was clealy some interest in the group, but not enough to >fullfil the requirements of creating a new Big8 newsgroup. If around 50 >more people had voted, we might have made it. > >Options: > > a) we can try to set up alt.metric-system instead > b) we can try misc.metric-system again in 6 months with a more > significant effort to get people interested > c) we can drop the idea (and consider newsgroups a thing of the past) > >The full ballot result is on > > http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1032469171.42005%40isc.org > >If any of you did vote YES but your email address is not listed correctly >in the result report, please let me know TODAY, with a cc: to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Markus > >-- >Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK >Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> >
