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From: clarke@utcsri.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Suggestion for a new can. newsgroup
Message-ID: <4969@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 10:17:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: utcsri.4969
Posted: Mon Jun 22 10:17:32 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Jun-87 02:59:58 EDT
References: <3506@watvlsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: clarke@utcsri.UUCP (Jim Clarke)
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Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <3506@watvlsi.UUCP> jbergeron@watvlsi.UUCP (Janick Bergeron) writes:
>In light of the recent discussion about can.* newsgroup and their low number
>and traffic, I would like to propose the creation of ... 'can.french'. Its
>purposes would be:
>
>1) Discussion on general topics (much like can.general) in French.

Why not just discuss things in French in the present newsgroups?  News items
are supposedly grouped by content, not by language, and it seems to me better,
not worse, for the French-Canadian and English-Canadian views to appear side by
side in the same group.

I expect that even the rare reader as old as I am will be able to read French
well enough to understand.  If you get flames from the (English) rednecks -- or
if the French traffic is overwhelming, I suppose -- then separating the groups
might be a good idea, but for now....

> [much sensible stuff in the original article omitted here]
>For an all Canadian USENET,

-- and let it replace the traditional corn flakes box!

>Janick Bergeron
>-- 
>
>Bergeron's First Law : In a locker room, if two (or more) persons happen
>		       to be in the same row, their lockers will be adjacent.
					 ^^^
Uh, is that "row" or "row"?  A kind of fight, or a rotated column?  And can I
needle you like this in French?  (Answer:  no.)
-- 

Jim Clarke -- Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4
              (416) 978-4058
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