On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 10:50 PM, John Gilmore <jwgli...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Regrettablly, incoherent questions are not limited to "foreign speakers".
>
> Moreover, we have a number of "foreign speakers" among our most useful
> contributors.
>
> There was always the danger that it would do so, and this thread has
> now taken a disagreeably xenophobic turn.  I suggest that we kill it
> off before it becomes even more offensive.
>

Good point. I really wasn't thinking in those terms -- I was thinking of
the questions that are so basic that people usually ask, "Is this for a
school project?"

But yeah, it is at risk of turning into anti-foreigner rants. I'm out.
-- 
zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it"

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