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Re: translation needed

From:Paul Bennett <paul.bennett@...>
Date:Friday, October 22, 1999, 10:21
Carlos writes:
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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 --- Pb ************************************************************* This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. *************************************************************