mot de passe root

[Bart Silverstrim]

On Mar 24, 2005, at 10:30 AM, Bob Johnson wrote:

> Peter Risdon wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 10:05 +0100, Josh Ockert wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:51:51 +0000, Peter Risdon
>>> <peter at circlesquared.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 08:54 +0100, Josh Ockert wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've noticed that nobody responds negatively to questions by 
>>>>> Russian
>>>>> speakers, but that French speakers are told not to ask questions 
>>>>> here.
>>>>> I don't believe this is a fair response.
>>>>>
>>>> Perhaps, though I'm not sure myself what is said in Russian to them
>>>> whereas I can read the French. But the reply in, I think, Swedish to
>>>> this question in French was a very good indication of what an 
>>>> impossible
>>>> babel this or any other list would be if a single language were not
>>>> declared and respected.
>>>>
>>>> Peter.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You could equally argue that this place is already a babel; mentally
>>> disregarding messages in foreign languages should be just as easy as
>>> ignoring the questions about particular hardware you know nothing
>>> about. We're all Internet literate here (at any rate, most of us ;) 
>>> ),
>>> which suggests that we've the ability to pick out the important 
>>> and/or
>>> applicable bits from masses of information.
>>>
>>
>> No, I'm sorry but that seems to me to be a non sequitur. We can
>> understand questions we are not competent to answer if they are in
>> English, learn from the replies and if we hit the same issues 
>> ourselves
>> we can google and get a reply we can understand. You are suggesting 
>> this
>> incredibly useful situation be broken, if I understand you right. And
>> this applies to French and Russian speakers equally: this is an 
>> English
>> list, there are also French and Russian lists. I'd argue just as
>> strongly that postings to the French list should be in French.
>>
>> Peter.
>>
> This is the default world-wide FreeBSD support list.  Postings in any 
> language
> have always been welcome (at least since I subscribed in 1997).  Who 
> put you
> in charge of deciding otherwise?

How about we all agree to only ask questions in C?  Or will people 
start arguing in C++ or Python after that? :-)