Re: XXXXXXX japanese garbage postings and possible HACK.

[Andre Hedrick]

The gross language address a culture is wrong do not do that, it is not
acceptable behavor.  This coming from one of the biggest and well known
ARSE's here on the list!

On 6 Aug 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Followup to:  <001f01bff0ae$0d3b7780$1f45a8c0@tinkywinky>
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^

This says it all!

> By author:    "Andrew van der Stock" <[e-mail]>
> 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,

I agree in principle that it is rude, but block in global *.jp is bad.
This was part of the original post that is now lost.

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy