From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 21 17:55:02 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 A808116A41F for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:55:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from rambo.401.cx (rambo.401.cx [80.65.205.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECA6A43D45 for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:55:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from [192.168.200.2] (rocky [192.168.200.2]) by rambo.401.cx (8.13.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k0LHsrlC067652; Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:54:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Message-ID: <43D2756B.3030208@401.cx> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:54:51 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.4 (Windows/20050908) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: zettel@acm.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Subject: Re: 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: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:55:02 -0000 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Maybe it's just me but the idea of a bunch of English speakers > sitting around and debating whether or not to permit foreign > languages on the mailing list is a bit like a bunch of men sitting > around and debating whether or not to legalize abortion. > > It's an issue that so obviously does not affect the discussors > that it's incredible any of them would believe it possibly affects > them in any way whatsoever. > > Ted > Why is that? Because we have put down the effort of learning the de facto standard language on the internet, we no longer may have an opinion about the ones that haven't? Or did you just assume that everyone who speaks english is from an english-speaking country? I'm swedish. I (naturally) prefer to speak swedish. But, I speak 2 other languages without problems and can make myself understood in a few more. Still, I would never dream of posting to a mailinglist in any other language then english, unless otherwise requested. There are plenty of mailinglists and supportforums available in almost every language you can imagine. There is no need to increase the noise on @questions with posts that perhaps 1 or 2 percent of the subscribers can understand. -- R