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From: hayes@westcsr.UUCP (Sean Hayes)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: non-English Articles (English)
Message-ID: <193@westcsr.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 08:11:05 EST
Article-I.D.: westcsr.193
Posted: Tue Nov 20 08:11:05 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 23-Nov-84 03:06:57 EST
References: <452@diku.UUCP> <1314@ihuxq.UUCP> <1524@qubix.UUCP> <154@uwai.UUCP> <>
Reply-To: hayes@westcsr.UUCP (UNAC089)
Organization: CS Dept., Westfield College, London
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Summary: 

In article <> aeb@turing.UUCP writes:
>> 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. 
>
>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.

I humbly suggest that the next release of rn has keys which translate
articles in foreign languages to the local language, In the same way that X
unrotates articles ( should this be in net.ai ?)

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				Sean.