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From: davis@hplabs.UUCP (Jim Davis)
Newsgroups: net.jokes,net.jokes.d,net.news.group,net.nlang
Subject: Re: non-English Articles (English)
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Date: Wed, 14-Nov-84 17:33:28 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 14 17:33:28 1984
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Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA
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Language: American-English

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Jim4>     What about a new keyword "Language:" for the header.
Jim4> I think that that would be an even better solution than Andries'.
Jim4> It could be automatic at sites that do all their work in a
Jim4> particular language, overridden only on demand.  It would
Jim4> allow automatic filtering, and those great AI projects
Jim4> could try out automatic translation on news.

Tom1> I therefore propose the creation of a new group, net.flang, with subgroups
Tom1> such as net.flang.spanish, net.flang.french, net.flang.russian, 
Tom1> net.flang.yiddish, net.flang.norwegian, etc.  Articles posted to these 
Tom1> groups would not necessarily be about that particular language, but they
Tom1> would be written *in* that language. 

AB2> No, a much better idea would be to ask people writing in e.g. german to
AB2> add (german) in the subject line, just as people now add (rot13) when
AB2> a joke is encrypted. That way people that do not understand that particular
AB2> language can hit 'n', or even write a filter to throw such articles away.
AB2>       Andries Brouwer -- CWI, Amsterdam -- {philabs,decvax}!mcvax!aeb

Tom3> Great idea!  I withdraw my earlier suggestion and 2nd Andries'.
Tom3> Tom Christiansen University of Wisconsin
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