Dear Bill, The remark on the last of the informal votes might tell you something about the emotional content of the metrication issue to some (many) folk.
Cheers, Pat Naughtin CAMS Geelong, Australia on 2002-09-23 23.42, Bill Potts at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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/> >> >
