Gerhard Haering schreef: > I can understand your emotions here. OTOH it's typical for Germans > (and even more so French) to assume that everybody speaks their > language.
The same is true for English language speakers in my experience... (E.g.: why is this international newsgroup in English only?) > [*] The very minimum of netiquette would require to read a few > messages in the newsgroup/mailing list and check what it is about and > in what language it is. Hm, be.* newsgroups are officially "quadrilingual" (Dutch, French, German & English), but in practice 99,99% of the messages are in Dutch, so reading a few messages won't help much... ;-) -- JanC "Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." RFC 1958 - Architectural Principles of the Internet - section 3.9 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
