On Oct 17, 2006, at 7:38 AM, geeknoob wrote: This is up to the moderators of course, but I think it's going to make things more difficult in the long run with cross-posting, people getting things 2 or 3 times (once in native language, once in English, and then maybe in a 3rd language), then people on more than 1 list responding to the wrong list's post, and/or having those on the Spanish list not knowing what the English list said to try and giving contradicting advice which could make the issue with the Toaster worse, etc. Entirely agreed - and really the reason why communication on the list should remain in English (Oh, and I'm not an American, nor a native English speaker), as it is the one unifying factor on lists like these. Granted, there are occasionally folks that jump in, whose command of English is probably worse than my command of Thai, but I feel the best way to handle this for them is for those folks on the list able to write in their language to point this out to them, or to translate back and forth for the benefit of the other readers. |
