--- Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
Michael-
C'est bien de voir que tout au moins quelqu'un se
souvient de la liste
correcte pour discuter ces sujets. Est-ce que tous
les autres oublient
parce que en ce moment Jimbo ne re�oit pas les
messages de cette liste-ci ?
Jimbo is subscribed to the list, but he started the thread on wikipedia-l, so I replied there. Is there any particular reason for this thread to be in French? Andre, Anthere and yourself all speak English, which is surely the best language to reach the largest number of people? foundation-l and wikipedia-l are multilingual to allow people to communicate who otherwise could not, not to have semi-private exchanges on a public list.
Regards,
Erik
I would not *exactly* call public mails to a list with probably over 100 registered users, tracked by Google, "semi-private exchanges" :-)
Yes, there are reasons First, unless that recently changed, this *public* list is *multilingual. We do not need authorisation to write another language than english here.
Second, it is good to remind users of that list of this fact. When we use english all the time, people are lead to believe it is *mandatory* to write in english here. It is not
I'll add that comments stating it is inappropriate to write in french on a multilingual list, and requesting an explanation, do not exactly help asserting the fact this mailing list *is* multilingual.
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