FW: objection to Olde English measurementsYes, I propose that all protest
messages are sent in the course of the coming weeks. I also think that the
BWMA and F2M are scouring the net. At least, Weatheroffice did not give in
too much to them. These French bootlickers and kowtowers won't listen to any
user of metric who objects to their outrageous nonsense. Probably they think
that yards and miles are international. I have told them that I will
unsubscribe from their services, as their defaults are unbearable.
I cannot support such morons,
Han
----- Original Message -----
From: kilopascal
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 6:59 PM
Subject: [USMA:14762] Re: FW: objection to Olde English measurements
2001-08-04
Should we be surprised? This is what we expected. I just wonder how many
of these British and American users are actually members of the BWMA or
their American sister group who scour the internet looking for such sites
and demand that they use FFU as their defaults?
What this does not explain is why ALL other languages also default to FFU.
* In a message to me, they simply denied that the entire site defaults to
this garbage.
Nor does it explain how to handle a conflict should one ever have to drive
in France or elsewhere in the world. Those yards and miles will not be
reflected in the roadsigns and official maps, nor will people on the street
who are asked be able to give directions in FFU.
I doubt they will make any changes, but one way to mess them up is to ask
that FFU be in feet instead of yards. Tell them Americans don't understand
yards. This will conflict with the British use of yards where the Americans
use feet.
In all practicality and reality, the default units used should be those that
the driver will encounter on the road in that country, not what some people
want it to be?
Is France expected to post distance and speeds in FFUs as the default to
please Americans and British?
I will wait a few weeks before I write them complaining about FFU appearing
in German.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: Barbara and/or Bill Hooper
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Friday, 2001-08-03 22:31
Subject: [USMA:14757] FW: objection to Olde English measurements
Here is the repy I received from Maporama (followed by my message to which
he/she was responding):
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From: "Julien TESSIER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: objection to Olde English measurements
Hello,
First of all, I thank you for the interest you have for our website and I
hope it will be useful in your daily life.
As for your mail,
The unit measure we used before as default was the metric system. Many
American and British users did ask us to change it, in order to have the
mile and yard system as default.
Metric system is still available on our English service and you can
personalise it.
Maporama website quality is our #1 priority and thanks to your comments we
will keep on reducing the error rate to 0 and ameliorate the quality of our
service. Thank you for your help and the faithfulness you give
us.Regards.No�l Lebeaupin, webmaster. PS : for further information or
any problem please continue to mail us at the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
address.
-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara and/or Bill Hooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: vendredi 3 ao�t 2001 04:18
To: List_Webmaster
Subject: objection to Olde English measurements
Bon Jour!
I tried to use your web site to get an itinerary from my cousin's home in
Hemer, Germany to his vacation home in Obermaiselstein, Germany and was
annoyed to find the information came up in MILES!
Why would anyone driving in Germany want or need the information in miles?
The road signs in Germany are in kilometres and the instruments on the
dashboard of the rental car provide distances in kilometres and speeds in
kilometres per hour. How can I use a set of directions in miles when all the
information I see while on the trip is in kilometres?
I did belatedly find that I could click on a special button to get the
information in kilometres, but why should I have to waste my time doing this
extra step?
I don't understand why you degrade the quality and usefulness your otherwise
fine and useful web site by providing information in outmoded Olde English
measures.
(Dr.) William Hooper
Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
