On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 22:14, Hugo S. Carrer wrote: > Anyway I agree with you that it would be chaotic if we had a > babel list. But one mail every now and then is not that bad
Every spammer says that one mail every now and then is not that bad! The belief that you deserve to be the exception to the rule because a small infraction that you commit won't cause a problem as long as no-one else follows your example is the signature of a spammer. I did not join this discussion to bash the people who were originally discussing in Portuguese. I joined in because someone was suggesting that any language should be used (a theory that is a logical extension of your suggestion that a message every now and then is OK). There are several potential approaches to dealing with this problem. One approach is to configure a mail server to silently discard all email from non-English speaking countries. Another approach is to configure a mail server to discard all email that has non-ASCII characters (forcing some people to change the representation of their name because it's normal spelling has accents or is written in an alphabet with >26 characters). Both of these methods are being actively used in the fight against spam and could be adapted to deal with poly-lingual mailing lists. I don't think that such a situation will benefit the people who don't speak English. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
