Re: XXXXXXX japanese garbage postings and possible HACK.

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Sun, 06 Aug 2000 21:49:03 -0700

Andre Hedrick wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>

Uh, yes. That's downright ridiculous. Now, blocking any *post* in Japanese is one thing (put a bounce message saying "please resend in English" or something), but blocking any post from Japan is inconceivable.

-hpa

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