Congratulations, everyone! :-) This was a sweet victory, for now anyways...
However, Markus, can you be so kind as to post these instructions below for those who use Netscape instead? Thank you so much. Marcus On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:07:32 Markus Kuhn wrote: >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__ > > ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
