Tue Sep 2 14:00:06 1997 - Message No. 1366
From: Pagendarm@dlr.de (H.G.Pagendarm)

Subject: Usage of german language


Hi @ters!

I am surprised that Stephans announcement of a local meeting written
in german language seems to cause trouble.

I'd like to throw in my two cents:
Eventually it is worth to consider to allow non-english postings in the lists.
I do know some lists which are multi-lingual. In particular, in case such as
this when the interest of the  message is rather local it would probably make it
easier for those guys who have a hard time in writing English.
Given that everybody knows how to read English, writting may be a more 
demanding task.
With a little luck this could even attract more contributions.

Most reader will probably get an idea about the contents even if they don't
understand the language used. They could ask for translation in case a
contribution appear to be of particular interest to them. This assumes of
course that non-english contributions concentrate on topics with local
interest.

I'm fine with english but I would gladly accept mixed language. The alternative
would be to establish even more mailing lists. 


As I said, just my 2 cents.


Hans-Georg  Pagendarm, Göttingen, Germany


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