--- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller(a)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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