[vlc] Re: Attention. English spoken (Was VOD projet france television)

[Adam Cimarosti]

Florian G. Pflug wrote:

>On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 04:52:54PM +0200, Christophe JACQUINET wrote:
><frech text I sadly can't read>
>
>Hi
>
>I happens quite often that people post to this list in french. For me as a
>geek it's natural to do most of my online correspondence in english, unless
>a forum or mailinglist explicity states that it's in german (The only
>languages I speak...), but I guess for others this is not the case.
>
>Maybe there could be a big, fat warning in the mail you get after you
>subscribed this list that people speak english here, and that it's both
>
>a) Unpolite to post in other languages, because a lot of people won't
>understand you
>
>but more important
>
>b) The chance if getting an answer to your question is seriosly reduced,
>because, well, some people won't understand you.
>
>I don't know if it's possible to post here if you are not subscribed, but if
>it is, the same warning should be everywhere the e-mail address is listed.
>
>greetings, Florian Pflug
>  
>
I agree with you, but not fully..
even if I don't speak French.

You should also consider that Videolan is a project by a french 
university so I guess it's developers speak
some french (at least :P) and he would receive a reply. Another thing is 
that not everyone knows English.

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