Re: translation needed

Carlos writes:
>>>>>>
Well.  Besides conlang and its offshoots: NGL and conculture, I've been
throw syster list auxlang and I'm usual reader of some newsgroups.  Actually
I have not had much of a bad experience there or in any other list (except
lack of postings in the ones I manage).

Well, soc.culture.colombia is full of flames, idiots, flooders,
crossposters, advertising... and it seams to be a better place than other
soc.culture groups.  But then, that is something I expect and something I
can live with and 80% of the threads I don't even bother to open (while I
read almost every posting from conlang).

At alt.usage.spanish I have found a friendly community where you are not
flamed neither by asking nor by answering.  So it seams that even Usenet
groups can be a place to stay, it's just a question of getting the right
community.

My ISP has some newsgroups, one of them devoted to humor.  People is
friendly sharing the old and repeated jokes allong with some new material.
But when someone post some advertising (or worse: some
become-rich-by-surfing posting) or someone complains that people is sharing
jokes instead of working, you get a series of posting of all colours and
shapes trying to shutting up the perpetrator.
<<<<<<

My opinion has always been that the newgroups are there for any eejit with an
ISP to jump in and start trolling, whereas lists need a bit more effort to find
and join.  The extra work required tends to discourage the ignorant,
feeble-minded and closed-minded.  "Thank the Maker!", to quote one of the
greatest minds among sci-fi characters <G>.

JM2


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Pb






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