On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 19:09:28 +0100 Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:05, Derek Broughton wrote: > > From: "Matej Cepl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Carl Baldwin wrote: > > > > Tem certeza que no menu "Loadable Module Support" > > > > todas as opcoes estao escolhidas? > > > > > > Guys, could you please switch to English? > > > > This is a public list. Just because English is the > > language we (mostly) have in common is no reason people > > shouldn't use their own language. I don't speak > > anything else, and can't read much better, but I have no > > problem with posts in portugese or any other language. > > This is a public list for English language discussions. This is the only debian-laptop list so it is implied that anybody can post on it, just because somebody doesn't speak english it doesn't mean that he or she doesn't deserve help. > If it starts getting many posts in other languages I'll > unsubscribe. It would be a big loss for the list and I really mean it. But I don think that threats are the way to go here. >I get far too many messages that aren't of > any use to me already without having people deliberately > flout the rules. > > Just think about this for 10 seconds. Think about the > number of languages that are used in the world and how > useless a mailing list would be if all languages were > represented in proportion to their use. > I'm from Argentina and luckily i can write/read english but no everybody can and that doesn't diminish (?) their right to get help from a FREE community. I hope I wasn very offensive and if I was I'm truly sorry.
