Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:30:52 -0500 From: Bob Johnson <bob89@eng.ufl.edu> To: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> Cc: Josh Ockert <torstenvl@gmail.com> Subject: Re: mot de passe root Message-ID: <4242DD2C.5030209@eng.ufl.edu> In-Reply-To: <1111655431.756.77.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> References: <4241DBED.2050600@libertysurf.fr> <4240B2F7.5010805@bah.homeip.net> <126eac4805032323547e728023@mail.gmail.com> <1111654311.756.71.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> <126eac48050324010546e5949@mail.gmail.com> <1111655431.756.77.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com>
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Peter Risdon wrote: >On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 10:05 +0100, Josh Ockert wrote: > > >>On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:51:51 +0000, Peter Risdon >><peter@circlesquared.com> 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. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>You could equally argue that this place is already a babel; mentally >>disregarding messages in foreign languages should be just as easy as >>ignoring the questions about particular hardware you know nothing >>about. We're all Internet literate here (at any rate, most of us ;) ), >>which suggests that we've the ability to pick out the important and/or >>applicable bits from masses of information. >> >> > >No, I'm sorry but that seems to me to be a non sequitur. We can >understand questions we are not competent to answer if they are in >English, learn from the replies and if we hit the same issues ourselves >we can google and get a reply we can understand. You are suggesting this >incredibly useful situation be broken, if I understand you right. And >this applies to French and Russian speakers equally: this is an English >list, there are also French and Russian lists. I'd argue just as >strongly that postings to the French list should be in French. > >Peter. > > This is the default world-wide FreeBSD support list. Postings in any language have always been welcome (at least since I subscribed in 1997). Who put you in charge of deciding otherwise? - Bob
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