As you might already have seen, the misc.metric-system ballot passed with 211 yes to 25 no votes:
http://www.uvv.org/cgi-bin/getmsg/2499 The new discussion newsgroup misc.metric-system should show up within the next two weeks in over a hundred thousand USENET NNTP servers all over the planet. If you use Microsoft Outlook and you have never used USENET newsgroups, then please try this: To get started, type "newsgroups" into the help system of Microsoft Outlook. To activate newsgroup under Outlook, select the menue View | Go To | News. There you will be asked, via which "NNTP server" you want to access newsgroups. Your Internet service provider will have sent you this information, lists it on his web site under "Support" or will be able to help you. For example, my Internet Service Provider NTL.com has this information on http://www.ntlworld.com/help/generalHelp/settings.html where it says that NTL customers should access newsgroups via the newsserver news.ntlworld.com Many web browsers also support newsgroups access, and there are many specialized "newsreader" programs available (including some that are over 20 years old). Markus -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Lab, Univ of Cambridge, GB http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ | __oo_O..O_oo__
