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From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti)
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Subject: Re: New USENET header: Language
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Date: 29 Dec 90 21:08:29 GMT
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In-Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca's message of 22 Dec 90 08:17:18 GMT

In article <1990Dec22.081718.2109@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:

   I propose a new USENET header item, namely "Language:"

   The default, for historical reasons, would be "Language: English" but
   other fields would be fine.   And sorry to be so anglo-centric, but
   I suspect that the language names should be the English names for the
   languages, since it is consistent with the use of English header names.

Apropos of nothing, I looked at Prodigy today at Sears (they had a
real interactive session live, so I poked around.)  Contributions to
Prodigy's message areas *must* be in English; apparently their censors
are all good English-speaking Americans.  Text in another language
will be rejected.

--Ed
emv@ox.com