Re: Zunehmende Anzahl, zum teil wirklich widerlicher Spamm-Mails

From: saki (saki_at_spamgone.com)
Date: 05/23/03 

Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 21:06:47 +0100

On Fri, 23 May 2003 18:55:13 +0000, William wrote:

> International and English don't go together. If you can't learn another
> language, or even attempt to translate it, then ignore it. So, becuase
> this is an international newsgroup, english is the choice language. You
> make it sound like English runs the world.

I am sorry, to disagree because I am an admirer of the German language and
of many German virtues (for the expression of which admiration I have,
paradoxically, been criticised by Germans in other contexts), but this
newsgroup has an English name and the established language of discourse is
quite plainly English. It is as discourteous (by which I mean *very*
discourteous), to conduct a private discussion here in German as it would
be to to do so in the midst of any pubic meeting of interested people, the
vast majority of whom have no wish or reason to learn your language.

Saki

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