Good point. I didn't read all the way to the bottom on my first visit.
Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >Behalf Of Pat Naughtin >Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 12:42 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:22302] Re: failure to establish metric newsgroup > > >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/> >>> >> >
