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From: tom@uwai.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes,net.jokes.d,net.news.group,net.nlang
Subject: Re: non-English Articles (English)
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Date: Tue, 13-Nov-84 10:35:01 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 13 10:35:01 1984
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> > 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. 
> 
> And next each of these groups would get subgroups about politics, games,
> jokes, unix-wizards, math ? And where do you put the followup written in
> spanish to an article written in danish ?
> 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.
> -- 
>       Andries Brouwer -- CWI, Amsterdam -- {philabs,decvax}!mcvax!aeb

Great idea!  I withdraw my earlier suggestion and 2nd Andries'.

tom
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Tom Christiansen
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