Peter Risdon wrote:
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 10:05 +0100, Josh Ockert wrote:This is the default world-wide FreeBSD support list. Postings in any language
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:51:51 +0000, Peter Risdon
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On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 08:54 +0100, Josh Ockert wrote:You could equally argue that this place is already a babel; mentally
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.
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.
have always been welcome (at least since I subscribed in 1997). Who put you
in charge of deciding otherwise?
- Bob
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