From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: djgpp daily digest for 05 May 1998 2/3 Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 16:01:26 -0400 Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt. Lines: 40 Message-ID: <35560796.2C2D@cs.com> References: <199805091800 DOT SAA03444 AT brethil DOT esoterica DOT pt> <01bd7c0c$3d492ee0$adef41c2 AT default> <6j47co$chu$1 AT news DOT luth DOT se> <01bd7c1b$6f86ac20$abef41c2 AT default> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp131.cs.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Dark Angel wrote: > > Martin Str|mberg escreveu no artigo > > > > > This newsgroup is supposed to be in English, I thought. > > Thanks, > > I am sorry Martin, but i was so happy to found someone on this newsgroup > that actually speaks my language that i decided to write to him in my home > language: Portuguese. > > Anyway what i wrote to David Leal had nothing to do about his question. > The message send was to express my happyness about that fact (finding > someone portuguese). As I understand it, basic etiquette states that you should post messages in the same language as the majority of the participants in the discussion. However, I don't know if there is a formal netiquette rule, nor has anybody that I know of come out and said that English is the "official" language of comp.os.msdos.djgpp. On the other hand, if I subscribed to one of the es. newsgroups, most of the traffic would be in Spanish and I might get flamed for posting in English. So it evens out. If you want to send messages to individual newsgroup subscribers, the best policy is probably to send them via private email, regardless of their content or what language you use. That is a general rule of netiquette. There are exceptions to every rule, though, and since DJGPP is an international phenomenon, we usually don't flame people who post in another language because they don't write English well, even though by doing so they are sharply limiting the number of people who might be able to understand what they are asking and help them. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich | A singer in a smoky room / Smell of | | aka Fighteer I | wine and cheap perfume / For a smile | | mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com | they can share the night / It goes | | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | on and on and on... | ---------------------------------------------------------------------