Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:26:51 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: fbsdlists@gmail.com (Bob Johnson) Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pooomooocyyyy ;( Message-ID: <200601172026.k0HKQp9a012518@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <54db43990601171038r33d706f0p6e19612110105e75@mail.gmail.com>
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> > On 1/17/06, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> wrote: > > TO JEST ANGIELSKA LISTA MAILOWA. POSZUKAJ POLSKIEJ > > > > This is english mailing list, not Polish. > > > > Historically, this has not been an English-only list. Questions in > any language have been welcome on this list for the nine years that I > have subscribed. Why people suddenly believe this has become an > English-only list is a mystery to me. Perhaps one of you xenophobes > can explain it to me? > > Why does it bother you so much to see someone post in a language you > cannot read? Why can't you just ignore it, just as you ignore other > questions that you aren't able to answer? That's pretty much what I do. I even try to guess what some of them are saying if I am not too worn out, but usually am not very successful. I don't understand some of the recent agitation for an English-only statement. It might be OK to include a reminder in the charter something about most of the readers are English speaking so questions posted in another language might not get as much response as those posted in English, but I would guess that most of the non-English posters already realize that. My only hope is that if someone posts in another language doesn't get a satisfactory response, they don't then start flaming about being too English oriented or some such. It has happened a little a couple of times, but not much. ////jerry > - Bob > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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