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From: sccowan@watmsg.waterloo.edu (S. Crispin Cowan)
Newsgroups: can.general,can.politics
Subject: Re: Re^2: postings in the French language
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Date: 28 Sep 89 14:58:05 GMT
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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
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