From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (Shmuel+gen@patriot.net)
Date: Wed Jun 12 2002 - 10:22:27 CDT
In <200206111944.g5BJiK515125@zorba.sf-bay.org>, on 06/11/2002
at 12:44 PM, Scott Hazen Mueller <scott@zorch.sf-bay.org> said:
>The problem that I see with this proposal as floated is that there is
>no benefit to the group of moderators it has been proposed to. The
>reason for my saying that is that 'moderators@isc.org' represents
>(for the most part and to the best of my knowledge) moderators in the
>Big8+alt, and these worldwide groups are conducted mostly in English
>and hence 7-bit ASCII is adequate. The primary benefit of the
>proposed encapsulation is for non-English discussions, and you won't
>find many moderators of those here.
I've seen plenty of articles in big 8 news groups with non-ASCII
characters, e.g. "é", "ö". I've even posted some, and I'm a native
Anglophone.
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