Re: Thoughts on the group
Willie Pierce <[email protected]> Sat, 14 May 2011 21:30:07 -0500
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--K1hB3uhFZYvQfIKvnL-8vOiMUWwKYkANAMAyVGh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The thing is though a lot of the real developers of blender have English as= a second language or not at all. Though I don't speak any other languages= I don't think it's fair to limit in that way. Marines wear shirts that say things like "pain is weakness leaving the body= ." The Army wears shirts that say "the Bahamas." Coincidence in think not. Willie Pierce Pls excuse any spelling errors sent from iPhone. On May 14, 2011, at 5:59 PM, "Yahoo - Euler" <euler_ar-/E1597aS9LRfJ/[email protected]> wrote: > Fabiano's true, I use Outlook for e-mail. By sending this email to variou= s groups about the theme UFO, ended sending to the Blender group unintentio= nally. >=20 > Excuses for all >=20 > Euler de Assis >=20 > ----- Original Message -----=20 > From: Fabiano Cerqueira=20 > To: [email protected]=20 > Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 8:59 AM > Subject: Re: [Blender] Thoughts on the group >=20 > The guy wrote in portuguese. After taking a look at the other groups > addressed in his message, they're all video/graphics related. So I don't > think he meant to spam the group. It seems to me he didn't catch that thi= s > is a English language group, or he's willing to participate and he just > doesn't known English. >=20 > I agree with the suggestion. It should be clear in group's rules that the > posts must be in English only. >=20 > By the way, in my opinion, the post is not Blender related. >=20 > For now, moderators should warn the guy to not post non English messages > again. >=20 > On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 3:54 AM, <makeanote-sFbbPxZDHXw0n/[email protected]> wrote: >=20 > > Thanks for the email - I think it's been difficult with some Spanish po= sts > > that have 'Blender' words to know what the exact context is. Having a > > restriction to English might help - but unsure if this needs to be writ= ten > > into the 'rules of the group' > > > > > > > > > [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > It really seems to me like this UFO message is not related at all to > > > Blender 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 somewhere in posts? I would like to know what you gu= ys > > > think about the list and what changes would be best to make. > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Community email addresses: > > Post message: [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: [email protected] > > List owner: [email protected] > > > > Shortcut URL to this group's page: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Blender > > > > and in case you've forgotten: > > http://www.blender3d.comYahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > >=20 > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >=20 > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >=20 >=20 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --K1hB3uhFZYvQfIKvnL-8vOiMUWwKYkANAMAyVGh Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> </head> <body style="background-color: #fff;"> <span style="display:none"> </span> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlStartT|**|-~--> <div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="position:relative;"> <div id="ygrp-msg" style="z-index: 1;"> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlEndT|**|-~--> <div id="ygrp-text" > <p>The thing is though a lot of the real developers of blender have English as a second language or not at all. Though I don't speak any other languages I don't think it's fair to limit in that way.<br> <br> Marines wear shirts that say things like "pain is weakness leaving the body."<br> <br> The Army wears shirts that say "the Bahamas."<br> <br> Coincidence in think not.<br> <br> Willie Pierce<br> Pls excuse any spelling errors sent from iPhone.<br> <br> On May 14, 2011, at 5:59 PM, "Yahoo - Euler" <<a href="mailto:euler_ar%40yahoo.com.br">euler_ar-/E1597aS9LRfJ/[email protected]</a>> wrote:<br> <br> > Fabiano's true, I use Outlook for e-mail. By sending this email to various groups about the theme UFO, ended sending to the Blender group unintentionally.<br> > <br> > Excuses for all<br> > <br> > Euler de Assis<br> > <br> > ----- Original Message ----- <br> > From: Fabiano Cerqueira <br> > To: <a href="mailto:Blender%40yahoogroups.com">[email protected]</a> <br> > Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 8:59 AM<br> > Subject: Re: [Blender] Thoughts on the group<br> > <br> > The guy wrote in portuguese. After taking a look at the other groups<br> > addressed in his message, they're all video/graphics related. So I don't<br> > think he meant to spam the group. It seems to me he didn't catch that this<br> > is a English language group, or he's willing to participate and he just<br> > doesn't known English.<br> > <br> > I agree with the suggestion. It should be clear in group's rules that the<br> > posts must be in English only.<br> > <br> > By the way, in my opinion, the post is not Blender related.<br> > <br> > For now, moderators should warn the guy to not post non English messages<br> > again.<br> > <br> > On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 3:54 AM, <<a href="mailto:makeanote%40optusnet.com.au">makeanote-sFbbPxZDHXw0n/[email protected]</a>> wrote:<br> > <br> > > Thanks for the email - I think it's been difficult with some Spanish posts<br> > > that have 'Blender' words to know what the exact context is. Having a<br> > > restriction to English might help - but unsure if this needs to be written<br> > > into the 'rules of the group'<br> > ><br> > ><br> > ><br> > > > <a href="mailto:Blender-owner%40yahoogroups.com">[email protected]</a> wrote:<br> > > ><br> > > > It really seems to me like this UFO message is not related at all to<br> > > > Blender or even art, it doesn't help that there is no English in the<br> > > > entire message. So is it spam? And is it objectionable to require<br> > > > English language somewhere in posts? I would like to know what you guys<br> > > > think about the list and what changes would be best to make.<br> > ><br> > ><br> > > ------------------------------------<br> > ><br> > > Community email addresses:<br> > > Post message: <a href="mailto:Blender%40yahoogroups.com">[email protected]</a><br> > > Unsubscribe: <a href="mailto:Blender-unsubscribe%40yahoogroups.com">[email protected]</a><br> > > List owner: <a href="mailto:Blender-owner%40yahoogroups.com">[email protected]</a><br> > ><br> > > Shortcut URL to this group's page:<br> > > <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Blender">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Blender</a><br> > ><br> > > and in case you've forgotten:<br> > > <a href="http://www.blender3d.comYahoo">http://www.blender3d.comYahoo</a>! 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