Re: F*ck*ng japanese garbage postings and possible HACK.

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
6 Aug 2000 17:05:52 -0700

Followup to: <001f01bff0ae$0d3b7780$1f45a8c0@tinkywinky>
By author: "Andrew van der Stock" <ajv@greebo.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> kernelnotes is broken - it doesn't deal properly with the language of over
> 126 million people. "offending characters" is offensive in this context.
>

It doesn't matter how many people speak it. These fora have English
as the only authorized language. It would be rude for me to post in
Swedish, and similarly rude for someone else to post in Japanese.

-hpa

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