> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:25:13PM +0200, Anders Norrbring wrote: > > Would it be to much to ask for a language specific request? > > > > Both I and my users think a function to post different messages to > different > > users depending of their language choice would be great! > > > > F.x. I run a news/info list that both English and Swedish users are > hooked > > up to, if I write an English-only mail, that should go out to users who > > chose English only, and the same for Swedish, and then some feature to > make > > messages go to both (all) if it's a multi-language message. > > I see this as impossible. To the best of my knowledge, there is no > definitive way to tell which language a message is written in. There is > a large overlap between words in different languages, and I expect this > problem to grow over time. > > I'd suggest that you run one list for your English users and one for > your Swedish users. The sign up instructions shouild be clear which one > the users should use. If you sent the confirmation instructions via an > e-mail in Swedish, I would expect your English users to not reply to > that e-mail.
Oh well, half of my mail was lost in some way? Perhaps my Outlook Beta. However, my suggestion was to use either the first line of the mess OR a keyword in the subject line to define the language. Anders. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org