RE: Thoughts on the group
"Ted Moskal" <[email protected]> Sat, 14 May 2011 01:32:45 -0700
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--ssCFdYKep3nDURjOaFYxsMUB5ukkheHB5j7ao8- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I took the post to Google translate and it says the language is Portuguese. Neither of the items posted appear to have anything to do with Blender so I have no idea why the poster decided to post them here. =20 As to your question, the biggest problem I would find with other than English posts is that I have no idea what they are, if they are spam, if they might be worth reading and I=92d be extremely unlikely to click on any links even if they say YouTube when I don=92t really know what I=92m clicki= ng on. Since this forum seems to be basically English speaking, I have no problem with it being a requirement for posts here. =20 Ted =20 Following is a =93Google translate=94 of what I wrote to Portuguese: (A se= guir, h=E1 um "Google Translate" do que eu escrevi para o Portugu=EAs:) =20 Peguei o post para o Google Translate e ele diz que a l=EDngua =E9 o Portug= u=EAs. Nenhum dos itens postados parecem ter nada a ver com o Blender, ent=E3o eu = n=E3o tenho id=E9ia porque o cartaz decidiu public=E1-las aqui. Quanto =E0 sua pergunta, o maior problema que eu iria encontrar com outros postos de Ingl=EAs =E9 que eu n=E3o tenho id=E9ia do que est=E3o, se s=E3o = spam, se eles podem ser vale a pena ler e eu seria extremamente improv=E1vel que clicar e= m qualquer link, mesmo se eles dizem que o YouTube quando eu realmente n=E3o = sei o que estou clicando. Uma vez que este f=F3rum parece estar falando, basicamente, Ingl=EAs, eu n=E3o tenho nenhum problema com ele sendo um requ= isito para posts aqui. Ted =20 =20=20=20=20 =20 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 5:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Blender] Thoughts on the group =20 =20=20 It really seems to me like this UFO message is not related at all to Blende= r or even art, it doesn't help that there is no English in the entire message= . So is it spam? And is it objectionable to require English language somewher= e in posts? I would like to know what you guys think about the list and what changes would be best to make. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --ssCFdYKep3nDURjOaFYxsMUB5ukkheHB5j7ao8- Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/htm= l4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> </head> <body style=3D"background-color: #fff;"> <span style=3D"display:none"> </span> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlStartT|**|-~--> <div id=3D"ygrp-mlmsg" style=3D"position:relative;"> <div id=3D"ygrp-msg" style=3D"z-index: 1;"> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlEndT|**|-~--> <div id=3D"ygrp-text" > =20=20=20=20=20=20 =20=20=20=20=20=20 <p> I took the post to Google translate and it says the language is<= br> Portuguese. Neither of the items posted appear to have anything to do with<= br> Blender so I have no idea why the poster decided to post them here.<br> <br> As to your question, the biggest problem I would find with other than<br> English posts is that I have no idea what they are, if they are spam, if<br= > they might be worth reading and I=92d be extremely unlikely to click on any= <br> links even if they say YouTube when I don=92t really know what I=92m clicki= ng<br> on. Since this forum seems to be basically English speaking, I have no<br> problem with it being a requirement for posts here.<br> <br> Ted<br> <br> Following is a =93Google translate=94 of what I wrote to Portuguese: (A se= guir,<br> h=E1 um "Google Translate" do que eu escrevi para o Portugu=EAs:)= <br> <br> Peguei o post para o Google Translate e ele diz que a l=EDngua =E9 o Portug= u=EAs.<br> Nenhum dos itens postados parecem ter nada a ver com o Blender, ent=E3o eu = n=E3o<br> tenho id=E9ia porque o cartaz decidiu public=E1-las aqui.<br> <br> Quanto =E0 sua pergunta, o maior problema que eu iria encontrar com outros<= br> postos de Ingl=EAs =E9 que eu n=E3o tenho id=E9ia do que est=E3o, se s=E3o = spam, se eles<br> podem ser vale a pena ler e eu seria extremamente improv=E1vel que clicar e= m<br> qualquer link, mesmo se eles dizem que o YouTube quando eu realmente n=E3o = sei<br> o que estou clicando. Uma vez que este f=F3rum parece estar falando,<br> basicamente, Ingl=EAs, eu n=E3o tenho nenhum problema com ele sendo um requ= isito<br> para posts aqui.<br> <br> Ted<br> <br> From: <a href=3D"mailto:Blender%40yahoogroups.com">[email protected]<= /a> [mailto:<a href=3D"mailto:Blender%40yahoogroups.com">Blender@yahoogroup= s.com</a>] On Behalf Of<br> <a href=3D"mailto:Blender-owner%40yahoogroups.com">Blender-owner@yahoogroup= s.com</a><br> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 5:45 PM<br> To: <a href=3D"mailto:Blender%40yahoogroups.com">[email protected]</a= ><br> Subject: [Blender] Thoughts on the group<br> <br> It really seems to me like this UFO message is not related at all to Blende= r<br> or even art, it doesn't help that there is no English in the entire message= .<br> So is it spam? And is it objectionable to require English language somewher= e<br> in posts? 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