Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:33:52 -0500 From: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> To: Bob Johnson <bob89@eng.ufl.edu> Cc: Josh Ockert <torstenvl@gmail.com> Subject: Re: mot de passe root Message-ID: <5801d657212f86da1866c3befccd76eb@chrononomicon.com> In-Reply-To: <4242DD2C.5030209@eng.ufl.edu> 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> <4242DD2C.5030209@eng.ufl.edu>
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On Mar 24, 2005, at 10:30 AM, Bob Johnson wrote: > 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? How about we all agree to only ask questions in C? Or will people start arguing in C++ or Python after that? :-)
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