From:	71231 DOT 104 AT compuserve DOT com (Richard Slobod)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: --off topic?-- This newsgroup: oddity
Date:	Sat, 01 Mar 1997 11:36:21 GMT
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ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire) wrote:

>Additionally: where do people go that want to disacuss djgpp in French? Is
>there a whole parallel hierarchy of usenet for other major languages,
>generally visible only to sites in countries where that's a prominent
>language? Here in Canada then, I ought to be able to find a French version
>for these newsgroups, whereas the US might have SPanish versions...?

There are indeed non-English language newsgroup hierarchies, but they
aren't restricted to regions where those languages are prevalent (if
your news server doesn't have them, it's because your ISP simply isn't
carrying those groups) and they aren't parallel to the English
language ones (i.e. there isn't automatically a French equivalent for
each individual English group or an English equivalent for every
French group).  For French newsgroups, look for ones whose names start
with "fr.".  I have no idea if there's a French DJGPP group, however
(although I strongly suspect there isn't).

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