I have updated the two wikipedia links to the U.S. Metric Association home 
page. There are other links that use the lamar server as a base; I don’t know 
enough to update them.

D. Mundie

> El 2015-08-04, a las 13:59, U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> 
> escribió:
> 
> 
>                           USMA Digest 4968
> 
> Topics covered in this issue include:
> 
>  1)  Fw: RE: Site Down
>       by "Parker Willey Jr." <[email protected]>
> 
> De: "Parker Willey Jr." <[email protected]>
> Asunto: [USMA:54797] Fw: RE: Site Down
> Fecha: 3 de agosto de 2015, 15:11:31 GMT-4
> Para: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]>
> 
> 
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> 
> Also, the wikipedia page: 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Metric_Association 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Metric_Association>
> at the bottom of both pages in external links, there are pointers to the 
> lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/ link.
> 
> ...Parker
> 
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
> From: David Pearl <[email protected]>
> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> 
> Sent: Sunday, August 2, 2015 9:28 AM
> Subject: [USMA:54796] RE: Site Down
> 
> Wikipedia has an outdated link to USMA then. 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Message from "Hillger,Donald" <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> ---------
>     Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 15:01:08 +0000
>     From: "Hillger,Donald" <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Reply-To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> Subject: [USMA:54795] RE: Site Down
>       To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> I should have provided a bit more information.  The new USMA pages are at 
>> www.us-metric.org <http://www.us-metric.org/>.  Our ww.metric.org domain 
>> name will point there eventually, but that’s not happened yet, even though I 
>> made the request to have that done.
>>  
>> The new domain name may not be permanent, but it was acquired so that both 
>> sites would work while the new one was being created by a team that was 
>> hired by the University to help with the transition away from the old 
>> “lamar” computer that was retired at the end of last week.  There is no 
>> forwarding of that URL, so users need to give up there.
>>  
>> Thanks to those who are letting me know that things are not working.  I 
>> wrote about this in the last Metric Today, and the next issue will have even 
>> more information.
>>  
>> If anyone wants to let me know about broken links etc. one the new site., 
>> I’m going to meet with the transition team this week to iron out any 
>> remaining problems.  Then it will be up to me again to make future changes.
>>  
>> Don
>> USMA Webmaster
>>  
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
>> Of Hillger,Donald
>> Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2015 08:41
>> To: U.S. Metric Association
>> Subject: [USMA:54794] RE: Site Down
>>  
>> We’ve switched to a new server and metric.org still has not been changed to 
>> point to the new server.
>>  
>> Don
>>  
>> From:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
>> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>] On 
>> Behalf Of David Pearl
>> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 20:42
>> To: U.S. Metric Association
>> Subject: [USMA:54791] Site Down
>>  
>> Our site metric.org seems to be down. I hope it goes back up soon. P.S. I am 
>> using Google Chrome as web browser.
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