Xref: utzoo news.groups:18105 soc.misc:1829 soc.culture.misc:1342 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!iesd!iesd.auc.dk!fischer From: fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) Newsgroups: news.groups,soc.misc,soc.culture.misc Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: soc.culture.German Message-ID: Date: 23 Feb 90 00:28:00 GMT References: <1472@serene.UUCP> Sender: news@iesd.auc.dk (UseNet News) Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Aalborg Lines: 16 In-reply-to: lyled@pnet12.cts.com's message of 21 Feb 90 18:16:12 GMT In article <1472@serene.UUCP> lyled@pnet12.cts.com (Lyle Davis) writes: >I would suggest, however, that messages within the conference be required to >be in English; You cannot "require" anything on the net. People can post in any language they like. We can only hope that people will stick to the tradition of writing in English on the wide-distribution groups. On the other hand, there are > 100 Mp (Mega-people) with German as their native language. Learning the language couldn't hurt, what with BRD as the strongest economic power in the world... /Lars -- Lars Fischer, fischer@iesd.auc.dk | If you want PL/I, you know where to CS Dept., Univ. of Aalborg, DENMARK. | find it. -- D. M. Ritchie