Everyone please note, in the near future, the current discussion boards are likely to be replaced with a Yahoo Groups forum. The existing forums will remain permanently accessible for research purposes.

The Yahoo Group will provide additional facilities, such as the posting of photographs. Also, there will be no pop-up advertising which is very distracting for some visitors. More news when it happens.

I'm a member of several Yahoo groups. I think the software provides a much nicer interface, formating is allowed in the messages, people can either log on to website or receive e-mail per their preference, several other nice features. I think it would be a good step for the forum.

http://groups.google.com/group/misc.metric-system

Why doesn't everyone just start posting here? The site already exists, no need to set up another one.

Daniel

The site you refer to looks very biased toward the state of play in the US.

Somehow I don't think that that is BWMA's target audience.

Would be nice to be able to post photos, but I didn't particularily like the layout of the site Danny referred to - difficult to tell where one post finished & another one started......

Or am I just living in the comfort zone of the old familiar site :-) :-) :-)

Most importantly though: -

No more pop-ups? Crack out the champagne!

You might look at this Yahoo group which is dedicated to ISO8601, a date/time format standard.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ISO8601/messages/1359?threaded=1

I linked to a "threaded" view of the messages because that is closest to what we have here. You can see a line or two of each message, click link for full message. You can also look at numbered list of messages, or "home" page has a statement of pupose and most recent activity.

I don't know of a capability to have multiple forums under "one umbrella" so we may just have a giant imperial/metric debate.

I'm personally not too happy with the idea of a yahoo group. For those of us who are on slower internet connections, it is much easier and faster to download one page rather than reading each post in a separate message. Have you looked into any other forum services besides Network54? www.voy.com is a possibility.

Danny - have you eaten special mushrooms?

Why would the BWMA want to use a "Metric in the USA" forum?

Have you researched what BWMA actually stands for?

Did you think it stood for : "Bulls**t Words from Metricated Americans"?

Or maybe: "Bunkum Waffle about Monetary Affairs"

If so then that single handedly explains and justifies every post you've ever made here!

:-D

The 'site' Daniel Jackson posted, http://groups.google.com/group/misc.metric-system ,
is a Usenet group. Google's title for it is 'The International System
of Units', not 'Metric in the USA'. It is not a US-oriented group.

Doesn't anyone here know what Usenet is?

I do prefer Usenet groups (even using Google) to any web-based
system: see here
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y2BE426FB .

Especially, I would have to say that I don't like the idea of using Yahoo.
The pop-up ads can be blocked, Yahoo's interface makes navigation somewhat
difficult (even though it does have threading, unlike here), and Yahoo
doesn't allow multiple sections (neither does Usenet, of course, but
when required, multiple groups are created under the same hierarchy). Also, I'm not sure why we need the ability to post 'photographs'; could anyone explain?

I think Yahoo is designed more for groups that have fairly low message
traffic compared to ours.

Andrew Usher

<<Also, I'm not sure why we need the ability to post 'photographs'; could anyone explain?>>

This could be used -for example - on one side to show any metric signs spotted, or (on the other side and for the benefit of Danny) a real picture of the UK that will shatter his fantasies.

ie. "proof"

Stimpy: "i.e. 'proof'"

REPLY: Or, possibly, 'proof of hidden metric'

There's already enough junk posted to these forums on a daily basis... I don't think posting pictures is going to help anything. If you really want to post something, post it to either photobucket or a Geocities site, and then put a link on these forums.

<<REPLY: Or, possibly, 'proof of hidden metric' >>

LOL! Yes of course, I forgot about that!
Absolutely everything is "hidden metric".

"""LOL! Yes of course, I forgot about that!
Absolutely everything is "hidden metric"."""

His 'hidden metric' makes our pro-metric cause look laughable. I really wish he was on the 'other side', as it is now he might as well be on the other side. He makes us pro-metric people look like a joke.

Steve, how many names do you use? One might think that all
anti-metric posters must be you!

I am disappointed no one responded to my actual message. Copy
and paste the links; apparently this place doesn't support them.
(Google and my newsreader do.)

Andrew Usher

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Got the above in an email. Might not hurt to check it out.

Stimpy = SteveH, SteveH = Stimpy.

Just thought I'd re-name myself, but I've never put across that the two are different pro-choice posters, they are one person. Otherwise I might have chosen something like eric,metre,kilo,ametrica,euric,kilopascal,Carlyle,Erin Gobragh,Daniel,etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc.

Can anyone remember Ren and Stimpy?

(P.S. I wan't suggesting for ONE MOMENT that those who have chosen that mountain of names are in anyway pro-choice, or even pro-metric).

OK, 'Stimpy'.

But still no one cares apparently what I wrote. I think I'll stop following this board as there doesn't seem to be anything interesting on it any more.

Andrew Usher

<<But still no one cares apparently what I wrote.>>

Actually I think they (and certainly I) do. However "usenet", "newsgroups" etc can appear a bit net-speak. Most people who'd like to contribute to this sort of forum want a simple non-technical front end. Something they can search out and press a simple button too. This forum software does that, but does it badly (pop-ups, server failures etc). Dare I say it, but the old "Metricsucks" site was a good forum system (although everything was clubbed into just one section).

<< I think I'll stop following this board as there doesn't seem to be anything interesting on it any more.>>

Would this have anything to do with Euros, Iranian Oil, collapsing US/UK economies, fantasies about non-reality and a sense of real and pure hate in certain posters that simply cannot be seen to be representative of any "side"?

> Actually I think they (and certainly I) do. However "usenet", "newsgroups" etc > can appear a bit net-speak. Most people who'd like to contribute to this sort > of forum want a simple non-technical front end. Something they can search out > and press a simple button too.

Well, I think Google is pretty non-technical. I like Usenet-style quoting (as I just demonstrated), and Usenet (always capitalised!) gives you automatic quoting. On this forum I always need to have two windows open when writing messages so I can actually see what I'm replying to.

> This forum software does that, but does it badly (pop-ups, server failures
> etc). Dare I say it, but the old "Metricsucks" site was a good forum system
> (although everything was clubbed into just one section).

I've never experienced a 'server failure' on this system.

'Metricsucks' had about ten thousand messages on the front page, and you had to reload this page for every new message you viewed, which made it nearly unusable for me (I did not have a broadband connection at that time).

Andrew Usher