Re: RFC: new mailing lists with native languages
Christian Leutloff <leutloff@abraxas.oche.de> writes:
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> IMHO it's time to start mailing lists for Debian users in their native
> languages. For most people it's easier to read and write in their
> native language than the english one.
Agreed.
>I know that everyone can create
> a mailing list, but I think it's worth to discuss the thing first.
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> How should we name the appropriate list i.e. for the german user:
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> debian-user-german
> debian-user-de (as used in the LANG shell variable)
or debian-german-user
or debian-de-user
or debian-local-de-user
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> What should we use?
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> Are there any objectives against this type of mailing list??
I've no objections.
>From my point of view it is better to do it this way than to have
lots of posts I can't understand on the debian-user list. In fact,
because there will be fewer messages, and a sense of common interest,
you may get better answers (certainly the local newsgroups in
Cambridge have a much better signal/noise ratio than the worldwide ones).
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> Which mailing lists should be created??
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No comments really, but there must be a critical mass of people for
the lists to work.
Chris
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