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From: clarke@utcsri.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Suggestion for a new can. newsgroup
Message-ID: <4977@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Jun-87 14:11:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: utcsri.4977
Posted: Tue Jun 23 14:11:37 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 24-Jun-87 05:30:22 EDT
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Reply-To: clarke@utcsri.UUCP (Jim Clarke)
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Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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In article <4975@utcsri.UUCP> jdd@utcsri.UUCP (John D. DiMarco) writes:
>	I think a good rule of thumb for can.general postings is simply 
>to reply to a posting in the language of the original posting, where at all
>possible. That would allow french discussions to remain french and English
>discussions to remain english....

Nyet, as we say in English.  I disagree, because (at least in the English
sector) too many potential respondents would be cut out.  Lots of us read
French well enough to struggle through an article but don't write it even
well enough to make embarrassing mistakes.  And -- eager though we may be
to improve our second language -- the real purpose of this network is
communication, not language learning.
-- 

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