[Patents] Re: Non-english on list [was Patent on online advertising.]

[Simon Conrad-Armes curne@curnomatic.dk]

|>There were reasons to write those things in french, since they pertained
|>to internal french taxation policies. If you think that these messages are
|>an offense to non-french-speaking readers, one could suggest that the
|>authors prepend a prefix like [FR] to such messages that would allow
|>anyone to filter them out quickly.

As a relatively new addition to this list, although an avid supporter of
the cause, I am greatly frustrated at receiving messages I cannot read.
The problem is not that I do not want the messages, it is rather that I
cannot percieve the content. I might have an interest in internal french
taxation policies.

|>I don't think that any forum needs a language policy.  The language
|>question is self-regulating. If people use a language that not everybody
|>understands, they lose readers.

People might lose readers but so might the list. To take the instance to
an extreme, if half the mails were in a language I could not read, I would
unsubcribe before long.


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