"Wizard of OS" wrote on 2002-10-01 22:59 UTC: > how's actually the progress??
As I already announced here and on news:news.announce.newgroups http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1032469171.42005%40isc.org the vote for the new Big8 newsgroup misc.metric-system failed because we would have needed around 50 more people participating. Did *you* vote? We have another chance to repeat the vote in around 5 months from now. We need 100 more YES votes than NO votes, but we had only 64 more (85 YES, 21 NO). How many people subscripe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? > wouldn't it be easier, if newsgroup fails, to set up a board by the > owner of USMA site What exactly is a "board"? > A ng or a board would be a big relief for our discussion in which I > often lose track! It would already be a big relief if people here were a bit more disciplined in their contributions. This means in particular: - think before you post a message - post only if you provide carefully prepared information and references - avoid posting just quick single-sentence outbursts of opinions, as these are unlikely to be of interest to most readers and contribute only to cluttering everyone's inbox - before refering to something, always make a quick google search to look for related high-quality web pages and then *include* the URLs that you find into your message, for example like http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Etiquette/ - always trim down any preceeding message that you quote to the absolutely necessary minimum and make sure you know how to efficiently trim messages with your editor - under no circumstances repeat the entire previous message to which you reply in your own contribution Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
