Regarding Joe Reid: Joe made his last postings to the listserver on 2004-02-05, just two weeks ago, the last one being [USMA:28552]. His last messages were responses to some questions about decimals and metricated recipes. He always had thoughtful and factual answers to metric questions, often quoting the sources for his information. So you could depend on him for straight answers not just opinions. Shortly after the USMA Web pages stared in 1996, he contributed information, especially the pages on the simplicity of decimals and the page on everyday metric units. He could simplify metric and make it easy to understand, without all the complications that some want to impose. I often asked him when I was looking for answers to questions that went farther back than my involvement with metric. I had hoped to visit Joe someday when the opportunity arose. To me he was Canada's Louis Sokol, in that he was a persistent and dedicated metric activist, one to whom metric was a continuing activity until the end.
Don Hillger USMA Webmaster and list owner
