From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 21 02:10:10 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA04694 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 02:10:10 -0800 Received: from mailserv.uni-tuebingen.de (mailserv.uni-tuebingen.de [134.2.250.102]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA04649 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 02:09:43 -0800 Received: from ambixpc2.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de by mailserv.uni-tuebingen.de with SMTP (PP); Tue, 21 Nov 1995 10:46:09 +0100 Received: (from zrncl01@localhost) by ambixpc2.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA01673; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 10:46:06 +0100 Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 10:46:05 +0100 (MET) From: Michael Class To: Joerg Wunsch cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.0-RELEASE now available! In-Reply-To: <199511210010.BAA14287@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 21 Nov 1995, J Wunsch wrote: > (Minor note, Jordan: the mail headers were lying, i've cancelled the > posting to the hackers list since i did't think there are too many > German readers here... so you've been the only one who's got _this_.) > > As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > It also makes me wonder though.. We have all these bugs, questions, > > hackers, etc. lists in the U.S., but why not create local counterparts > > to all of them for non-english speakers? > > At least for the German region, i don't see an urgent need by now. We > could perhaps create a _single_ German list, but everything else is > probably overkill. The BSD topics are continuously present in > de.comp.os.unix (which is not an overcrowded group at all, > fortunately). Well, as one of the the german readers, I would vote for not having more than one german group. I would expect that almost all of the "hakers" here are able to read and write in english and having the same discussions in german and english would double the effort of the ones that answer the questions. Micha ------------------------------------------------------------------------- michael class michael.class@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de ZDV Uni-Tuebingen, Morgenstelle C2-P28, Tel. +49 7071 29-7539 PGP-Public-Key: finger Michael.Class@x500.uni-tuebingen.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------