Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 17:49:46 06/09/99
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On June 09, 1999 at 17:48:06, Will Singleton wrote: > >Most relevant questions have been addressed, so let me ask a couple small >questions. > >What is your position on non-English messages? If non-English is the best someone can do, go for it, but a back and forth chat about nothing in Italian is as bad as one in English. http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate? The Gambitsoft forum is in German, but it says "other languages OK". I post there sometimes. I don't whine about stuff being in German, if I want to read what people are writing I assume that I'm the one with the problem, since it is a German language forum, and I use Babel Fish to do my translating. When I post, I post in English because I figure that I don't want to submit people to an English -> German Babel Fish translation. They welcomed me there despite my inability to speak German, and I think this group should have the same attitude toward non-English speakers. If someone starts flooding the group with an obscure dialect, and/or people start carrying on violent (moderatable) arguments in non-English, I might have to re-think, but I don't regard either of these situations as likely. >What is your position on the posting of email content? You aren't supposed to post private email in public places, that is common net practice. There may be some legal issues but I am not a lawyer. As a moderator I'd give blanket permission to post any email I sent as a moderator, since the content of my email is part of the job in that case, and people should be able to hold me accountable. I got sucked into a big war yesterday and that was a mistake. These are simply my positions as a moderator candidate, and anyone else if free to take whatever position they like. bruce
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