Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site turing.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!turing!aeb From: aeb@turing.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes,net.jokes.d,net.news.group,net.nlang Subject: Re: non-English Articles (English) Message-ID: <220@turing.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Nov-84 20:04:03 EST Article-I.D.: turing.220 Posted: Mon Nov 12 20:04:03 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Nov-84 06:05:12 EST References: <452@diku.UUCP> <1314@ihuxq.UUCP> <1524@qubix.UUCP> <154@uwai.UUCP> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 15 Xref: mcvax net.jokes:485 net.jokes.d:87 net.news.group:1802 net.nlang:137Apparently-To: rnews@mcvax.LOCAL > I therefore propose the creation of a new group, net.flang, with subgroups > such as net.flang.spanish, net.flang.french, net.flang.russian, > net.flang.yiddish, net.flang.norwegian, etc. Articles posted to these > groups would not necessarily be about that particular language, but they > would be written *in* that language. And next each of these groups would get subgroups about politics, games, jokes, unix-wizards, math ? And where do you put the followup written in spanish to an article written in danish ? No, a much better idea would be to ask people writing in e.g. german to add (german) in the subject line, just as people now add (rot13) when a joke is encrypted. That way people that do not understand that particular language can hit 'n', or even write a filter to throw such articles away. -- Andries Brouwer -- CWI, Amsterdam -- {philabs,decvax}!mcvax!aeb