Xref: utzoo can.general:1803 can.politics:2809 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watmsg!sccowan From: sccowan@watmsg.waterloo.edu (S. Crispin Cowan) Newsgroups: can.general,can.politics Subject: Re: Re^2: postings in the French language Message-ID: <29534@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: 28 Sep 89 14:58:05 GMT References: <1989Sep6.222038.2707@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1178@mannix.iros1.UUCP> <3837.251eb4d9@uwovax.uwo.ca> <1989Sep26.132533.12660@utzoo.uucp> <310@van-bc.UUCP> <1989Sep27.172847.15558@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <5140@ubc-cs.UUCP> Sender: daemon@watmath.waterloo.edu Reply-To: sccowan@watmsg.waterloo.edu (S. Crispin Cowan) Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 21 In article <5140@ubc-cs.UUCP> halliday@cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday) writes: > >The pattern emerges! People who say `OK, post in French if you wish' tend >to be from Ontario and Quebec. People who say `What's this garbage? Where's >my kill file?' tend to be from Western Canada. This is false. I've lived in Ontario all my life, and still think that French postings are silly. Posters have a right to do it, IMHO, but for the practical purpose of posting to a broadly read news group, they might as well encrypt it first. >...laura ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Login name: sccowan In real life: S. Crispin Cowan Office: DC3548 x3934 Home phone: 570-2517 Post Awful: 60 Overlea Drive, Kitchener, N2M 1T1 UUCP: watmath!watmsg!sccowan Domain: sccowan@watmsg.waterloo.edu "Everything to excess. Moderation is for monks." -Lazarus Long