Re: vmlinuz too big
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 00:49:25 +0100
Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 22:14, Hugo S. Carrer wrote:
> > Anyway I agree with you that it would be chaotic if we
> > had a babel list. But one mail every now and then is not
> > that bad
>
> Every spammer says that one mail every now and then is not
> that bad!
>
> The belief that you deserve to be the exception to the
> rule because a small infraction that you commit won't
> cause a problem as long as no-one else follows your
> example is the signature of a spammer.
>
>
> I did not join this discussion to bash the people who were
> originally discussing in Portuguese. I joined in because
> someone was suggesting that any language should be used (a
> theory that is a logical extension of your suggestion that
> a message every now and then is OK).
>
>
> There are several potential approaches to dealing with
> this problem. One approach is to configure a mail server
> to silently discard all email from non-English speaking
> countries. Another approach is to configure a mail server
> to discard all email that has non-ASCII characters
> (forcing some people to change the representation of their
> name because it's normal spelling has accents or is
> written in an alphabet with >26 characters). Both of
> these methods are being actively used in the fight against
> spam and could be adapted to deal with poly-lingual
> mailing lists.
>
> I don't think that such a situation will benefit the
> people who don't speak English.
>
Ok, I think we've past the point of producing something
useful from this. I think we should end the thread.
It was kind of fun anyway.
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