[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2002-09-23 17:43 UTC: > Markus Kuhn wrote: > >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) > > I would go for (a), or any other group name that you think is right. The > people on the UK metric mailing list want to be involved in this issue.
There is no vote necessary to set up an alt.* group. However, alt.* groups will need the individual manual confirmation of thousands of local news server administrators, therefore alt.* groups tend to be created far slower and also tend to be far less widely available then Big8 groups. The existance of an alt.* group might or might not in the future also be counted as an argument against a new Big8 group. If we try misc.metric-system again, we should make sure first that we have in the order to 100 people on various related mailing lists that will vote for YES. There are always 20-30 NO votes from people who routinely vote NO on almost every proposal, so we need at least 130 YES votes to get through. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
