From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 18 01:04:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CF0316A41F for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:04:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ext-gw.lemis.com (ext-gw.lemis.com [150.101.14.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C27D243D45 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:04:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by ext-gw.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82536131E40; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:34:27 +1030 (CST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 51DAB856BB; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:34:27 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:34:27 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Bob Johnson Message-ID: <20060118010427.GD76105@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1965019375.20060111213647@interia.pl> <20060117180138.T52750@chylonia.3miasto.net> <54db43990601171038r33d706f0p6e19612110105e75@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="C94crkcyjafcjHxo" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54db43990601171038r33d706f0p6e19612110105e75@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: Wojciech Puchar , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Foreign language posts (was: Pooomooocyyyy ;() X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:04:29 -0000 --C94crkcyjafcjHxo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 17 January 2006 at 13:38:39 -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: > On 1/17/06, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> TO JEST ANGIELSKA LISTA MAILOWA. POSZUKAJ POLSKIEJ >> >> This is english mailing list, not Polish. >> > > Historically, this has not been an English-only list. Questions in > any language have been welcome on this list for the nine years that I > have subscribed. Why people suddenly believe this has become an > English-only list is a mystery to me. Perhaps one of you xenophobes > can explain it to me? Simple: you misunderstand. Over the eleven years I've been on this list, I've seen a handful of foreign-language messages. Everyone has prompted a "please write in English" response. > Why does it bother you so much to see someone post in a language you > cannot read? Why can't you just ignore it, just as you ignore other > questions that you aren't able to answer? It's a question of signal to noise ratio. It also doesn't help the sender as much as sending it to the correct list. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --C94crkcyjafcjHxo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDzZQbIubykFB6QiMRApWDAJ46Jg8CDeOy/995Nv7DYj11xPoU3wCgmxTJ DzQI4XNF6+/sPAKRljjw/Os= =dXpt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --C94crkcyjafcjHxo--