From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Eichwalder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Bug reports in English only? (Re: OT: spam in this newsgroup) Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 20:22:58 +0200 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87elggi5m7.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1021315324 1506 127.0.0.1 (13 May 2002 18:42:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 18:42:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 177Kln-0000OA-00 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 20:42:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 177Km3-0002Hk-00; Mon, 13 May 2002 14:42:19 -0400 Original-Received: from dns.franken.de ([193.175.24.33] helo=elvis.franken.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 177KjJ-0001yv-00 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 14:39:29 -0400 Original-Received: from uucp by elvis.franken.de with local-rmail (Exim 3.22 #1) id 177KjI-0002ou-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2002 20:39:28 +0200 Original-Received: by tux.gnu.franken.de (Postfix, from userid 270) id A9976A4575; Mon, 13 May 2002 20:22:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87elggi5m7.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (miles@gnu.org's message of "Mon, 13 May 2002 12:39:45 GMT") Original-Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:1338 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:1338 miles@gnu.org (Miles Bader) writes: > So in a general sense, it's still a better bet for someone to use > terribly broken english than some other language, and the message shown > has to emphasize that; I can't tell you numbers but my feeling is many a lot users will stay away from sending reports because of the language issue. You may say, there are already enough reports. > I'm a bit worried that anything less strong that the current message > would result in people thinking `well, _maybe_ someone understands > language Foo, and my english isn't very good, so...' Probably. Okay, I don't want to insist. > [Note that if someone's english _isn't_ understandable, then it's > often easy to see where they sent their message from, and for a speaker > of that country's language to ask for a clarification, if they happen > to be reading the list -- and if there is no such speaker reading, well, > the reporter isn't any worse off!] Why can't you say this instead of the current message? Whenever I've got to file a report I feel offended a little bit by the current wording (okay, it's better than it was on 20.x). Reading the message again just now I think it can stay as is; obviously it's me who must change his mind ;-) -- ke@suse.de (work) / keichwa@gmx.net (home): | http://www.suse.de/~ke/ | ,__o Free Translation Project: | _-\_<, http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/ | (*)/'(*)