-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Sonntag, 21. September 2003 04:48 schrieb Bill Wisse:
I'm subscribed to a number of SuSE related lists and yes the only time you see a different language appearing, it is German. Even on the Openoffice list with questions from all over the world ,it are the Germans who break the rules.
The reason for this is probably that SuSE is a German company. So if someone buys software from a German company, has a complete set of German documentation, then looks for help on SuSE's German speaking website and finds these mailing lists, then he _might_ simply forget or overlook the fact that the language is English, not German. The same happened to me when I first subscribed to a SuSE mailing list. I hadn't received any posts in this list yet and inadvertently posted my question in German. What happened? I received a _friendly_ reply that the language of the list is English. I apologized and translated my question to english. Personally I think it's sad that SuSE is not offering mailing lists (or even their own newsserver) in different languages. Mandrake for example is offering mailing lists in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Polish. Only the security and developer lists are in English. And finally, I think it's time to get back to the topic of this list. People should not complain if somebody is making a mistake here but try to help him to correct his mistake. Ciao, Oliver PS: Sorry for the German text in the first line of my posting. And sorry for the Italian in the penultimate line. PPS: Sorry Bill for sending this reply directly to you first. I'm so used to pressing the reply button if I want to reply that I sometimes forget that this doesn't work for mailing lists. One more reason to use a newsserver instead of mailing lists... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/bWlw2xKg64Yci0URAq8KAJ9M9WExH93/sGCmQRcr4HqbAiY/dQCdFWT2 eN6+4LgcY+gp1kAEujCRlW8= =qW4r -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----