This is an international mailing list which, while primarily English, has messages that are legitimately written in other languages. Unfortunately, some of us can't read all of the languages used here. Is there an e-mail header field that is intended for identifying the language[1]? If so, could people be encouraged to use it here?
Of course, there will be people whose e-mail software can't be configured to generate arbitrary header fields, can't be configured to filter on arbitrary header fields, or both. But it would be nice if subscribers could automatically filter out messages that they can't read, or automatically route them to a folder for subsequent Babelfish. [1] Not the character set, which is easy. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html