Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:21:35 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: grog@freebsd.org (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Cc: Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org>, vocativus <vocativus@interia.pl>, Don Hinton <don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: English only, please (was: Pooomooocyyyy ;() Message-ID: <200601160121.k0G1LZNI005167@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060115230234.GX73071@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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> > On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 16:49:27 -0600, Don Hinton wrote: > > Hi Greg: > > > > On Sunday 15 January 2006 16:28, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Saturday, 14 January 2006 at 20:02:02 +0100, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > >>> vocativus wrote: > >>>> Witam! > >>> > >>> [...] > >>> http://www.bsdguru.org/dyskusja/ > >> > >> As I said a couple of days ago, this is an English language list. In > >> a case like this, it would be appropriate to *not* copy the list on > >> the reply, despite the policy to the contrary. > > > > Where exactly does it say that this is an "english only" list? > > I suppose you have a point. It's implicit; it should be spelt out. > At http://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html you have a > choice of "Mailing Lists" or "Non-English Mailing Lists". -questions > is under the former link; the Polish mailing lists are under the > latter. At > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/ > there's a reference to an inability to speak English. But we should > really do something about writing a charter that makes it clear. > Anybody feel like having a go? I don't really mind someone posting a question in another language as long as they realize that most of us will not be able to respond to it. Often enough, I think, there are others out there who can handle that language and they can respond. Hopefully they will not turn it is to a long running exchange on list in some other language. Now, if someone posts a question in something besides English and then begins to rant and flame people for not responding, then it is not acceptable. But, just starting a question here in another language is not so onerous. ////jerry > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address and phone numbers. > > --SA70dWWv8Z+SnoUH > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature > Content-Disposition: inline > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQFDytSKIubykFB6QiMRAuglAJ0TCv8myrrOtPQzb2ryP7mQKjFB1wCghtw/ > qV3CukL8rFshuVl2JJ1yW5g= > =67AN > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --SA70dWWv8Z+SnoUH-- >
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