>Marcus, why on Earth should someone be obligated to give you information if you >are not willing to help pay for the cost of gathering and distributing the >information?
In fairness to Marcus, he was requesting information not for his own personal benefit, but to help with the "common cause" which is to promote the metric system. >Your insistence on having things your way seemed very childish and >whiney to me and probably a number of others. No more churlish than announcing on this forum that certain information was available, but was not being posted here in order to provide an incentive to pay over money. Both sides have a point, and neither position is really as childish as it sounds. >I consider my membership in the USMA to be a statement of my views on >metrication. and presumably you wouldn't drop your subscription simply because the information was available here. > As Jim said, I'm putting my money where my mouth is. Fair enough, but putting money and time into fighting for metric in other ways (particularly for non-US residents) is equally valuable in the overall effort to promote the metric system. Let us not lose sight of the main objective here. The question we have to ask is which is more important: making the information available to the widest audience possible, or maximizing the newsletter revenue. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Wade | EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EuroKom | X400: g=tom;s=wade;o=eurokom;p=eurokom; Unit A2 | a=eirmail400;c=ie Nutgrove Office Park | Tel: +353 (1) 296-9696 Rathfarnham | Fax: +353 (1) 296-9697 Dublin 14 | Disclaimer: This is not a disclaimer Ireland | Tip: "Friends don't let friends do Unix !"
