Re: List Ettiquette
On 2009-08-29 23:14, Neal Hogan wrote:
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:02 PM, JoeHill<joehill@teksavvy.com> wrote:
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It's not a question of 'pure', it's a question of standards. The reason we are
all able to communicate is that we all agree to a standard set of symbols to
convey meaning.
I forget when we made this agreement :)
Well before you started using the internet on a regular basis.
If someone comes on here and starts asking us to forgive the
fact that they use different letters than we do, we're gonna say 'go f
yourself', and with good reason.
I have yet to see someone use different letters.
You've never seen a "foreign" language on the Internet??
http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson/Its_Greek_to_Me.png
http://lists.debian.org/debian-italian/2009/08/msg00008.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-chinese-gb/2009/08/threads.html
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