On 28 Apr 2006 08:00:38 -0700, "Pat" wrote:

|Really, you can't get non-metric stuff? In the US, every hardware
|store carries both metric and non-metric. Somebody, somewhere, must
|have one.

The USA is on a different planet.
I once tried to get some A4 copies, and failed miserably.
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Dave Fawthrop dave hyphenologist co uk Google Groups is IME the *worst*
method of accessing usenet. GG subscribers would be well advised get a
newsreader, say Agent, and a newsserver, say news.individual.net. These
will allow them: to see only *new* posts, a killfile, and other goodies.