Hi David, On Saturday, October 15, 2011 06:38:31 AM David Haller wrote:
Hello,
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011, Ricardo Chung wrote:
This is an English only Mailing list.
Wrong! This is the main user-support mailing list, the _DEFAULT_ list, and thus, it's the default for all that _do not_ have a more specialized list. As there is e.g. no opensuse-is, -no, -fi, -in (meant to be e.g. hindi) etc., discussions in those "other languages" are on-topic here. Of course, the OP should try some english (as this list _is_ using english as "lingua franca"), those who speak the language and can answer should add a short explanation as courtesy for those not speaking the language in question, and apart from that, one can only hope there's someone at all on this list to translate (or one who knows that on some other list there's someone who speaks whichever language is called for, e.g. someone on this list knows that someone on -de knows Kisuaheli (or whatever, and no, there's no one that I know of on -de ;)). Iff there is a better list (in this case: opensuse-es), the user should _kindly_ be directed to that list.
Nice that you came with statement that is inclusive for a whole class of subscribers; all people that don't use English, or some of languages listed in http://lists.opensuse.org/ section User/Support. List description in a wiki is here: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Communication_channels#Mailing_lists Prompted with jdd response I changed it a bit more: "This is the list for technical support and discussions, but if you are not sure where you question belongs start here! English is used by majority of readers on this list." It doesn't prescribe language, it just tells what is commonly used. Although, common courtesy and high level of tolerance should apply even without explicit description.
HTH, HAND, -dnh
PS: Back when opensuse-de was suse-linux and opensuse was suse-linux-en, we on -de got all those mails. No fuss.
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