From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 24 15:12:57 2005 Return-Path: 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 E8A0616A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:12:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from scorpion.eng.ufl.edu (scorpion.eng.ufl.edu [128.227.116.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 47ACC43D41 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:12:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bob89@eng.ufl.edu) Received: (qmail 21027 invoked from network); 24 Mar 2005 15:12:56 -0000 Received: from scanner.engnet.ufl.edu (HELO ?128.227.152.221?) (128.227.152.221) by scorpion.eng.ufl.edu with SMTP; 24 Mar 2005 15:12:56 -0000 Message-ID: <4242D8F8.8080308@eng.ufl.edu> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:12:56 -0500 From: Bob Johnson Organization: University of Florida User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050316) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org References: <4241DBED.2050600@libertysurf.fr> <4240B2F7.5010805@bah.homeip.net> <126eac4805032323547e728023@mail.gmail.com> <1111654311.756.71.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> In-Reply-To: <1111654311.756.71.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Peter Risdon cc: torstenvl@gmail.com Subject: Re: mot de passe root X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:12:58 -0000 Peter Risdon wrote: >On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 08:54 +0100, Josh Ockert wrote: > > >>I've noticed that nobody responds negatively to questions by Russian >>speakers, but that French speakers are told not to ask questions here. >>I don't believe this is a fair response. >> >> > >Perhaps, though I'm not sure myself what is said in Russian to them >whereas I can read the French. But the reply in, I think, Swedish to >this question in French was a very good indication of what an impossible >babel this or any other list would be if a single language were not >declared and respected. > >Peter. > > > When did this become an English-only list? For years the policy of this list was that you were free to post in any language you were comfortable with, but with the caveat that you had the best chance of getting help if you posted in English. Postings in other languages were often answered in that language, with an added pointer to a local support list in that language. So again, I ask: has that policy changed, or are the xenophobes just trying to impose their biases on the rest of us? - Bob