On Tuesday, 17 January 2006 at 13:38:39 -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: > On 1/17/06, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
Simple: you misunderstand. Over the eleven years I've been on this list, I've seen a handful of foreign-language messages. Everyone has prompted a "please write in English" response. > 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? It's a question of signal to noise ratio. It also doesn't help the sender as much as sending it to the correct list. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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