From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 16 02:29:03 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 72E0C16A41F for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 02:29:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ext-gw.lemis.com (ext-gw.lemis.com [150.101.14.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA33143D45 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 02:29:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by ext-gw.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A64D7131DE1; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:59:01 +1030 (CST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 8A42E85843; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:59:01 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:59:01 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Kevin Kinsey Message-ID: <20060116022901.GN73071@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <1965019375.20060111213647@interia.pl> <43C94AAA.9070009@orchid.homeunix.org> <20060115222845.GV73071@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200601151649.31803.don.hinton@vanderbilt.edu> <20060115230234.GX73071@wantadilla.lemis.com> <43CAFAC9.8080401@daleco.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="z/AAsH1r4ZXu3bz7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43CAFAC9.8080401@daleco.biz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: Karol Kwiatkowski , vocativus , Don Hinton , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: English only, please 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: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 02:29:03 -0000 --z/AAsH1r4ZXu3bz7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 19:45:45 -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 16:49:27 -0600, Don Hinton wrote: >>> >>> 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? > > A "virtual friend" of mine (Kiwi, but don't really know his name) > has written this for a programming forum I frequent: > > " To those people for whom English is a foreign language, I can > only offer this: English is - for better or worse - the /de facto/ > /lingua Terra/. Hmm. I don't want to justify the choice of language, just state it. It's an interesting document, but I don't think it's what we want. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --z/AAsH1r4ZXu3bz7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDywTtIubykFB6QiMRAs4XAJ41gdrKhyJ7hEfhM1dmdco9wXtdUwCfdIxM bxPvPUENyG1hL7PYQA4CwMs= =25lx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --z/AAsH1r4ZXu3bz7--