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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
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Posted: Mon Nov 12 20:04:03 1984
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> 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