From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 16:15:12 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 6062F16A420 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:15:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jdunham@texas.net) Received: from mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFFB743D46 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:15:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jdunham@texas.net) Received: (qmail 1158 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2006 16:15:11 -0000 Received: from dsl093-216-153.aus1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO [192.168.0.101]) (ldunham@[66.93.216.153]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 17 Jan 2006 16:15:11 -0000 From: "Jerry Dunham" To: Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:15:36 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <43CCC3C8.32366.1D8376F7@jdunham.texas.net> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <54db43990601170709g57b2e366u3c8d3ab6799e6c75@mail.gmail.com> References: <200601160121.k0G1LZNI005167@clunix.cl.msu.edu> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.30 public beta 1) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Cc: Subject: Re: English only, please (was: Pooomooocyyyy ;() 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: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:15:12 -0000 On 17 Jan 2006 at 10:09, Bob Johnson wrote: > On 1/15/06, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > 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. > > On the contrary, I think the policy should be that if you are going to > flame someone on this list, you MUST do it in a language other than > English. That makes it easier to ignore. Perhaps it could be required that flames be in Klingon. I doubt that there are too man Klingons on the list who would be offended by having their language be the official language of flames. Besides, it seems an appropriate language for flames by its nature, and the limited number of native speakers would certainly limit the number of flame messages. Now, as for enforcement.... -- Jerry Dunham jdunham@texas.net