Re: de.rec.fahrrad FAQ part 0

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Aliza R. Panitz (buglady@bronze.lcs.mit.edu)
Fri, 18 Feb 94 14:14:27 EST


People wrote:
>> >Technical point... there is no valid "de" Distribution.
>> Then start one.
>
Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>You are free to propose it on de.admin.news.misc or de.admin.news.groups.
>I see little chance of you succeeding, but you can try.

Then mathew wrote:
> Aren't you listening? You don't *have* to propose it. You just start
> using it. Those who want the distribution will accept it, those who don't
> will drop it.

Since there is so much ingrained resistance to a 'de' distribution, how
about tagging German-language FAQs with a distribution 'deutsch'? Then
we have an easily-extendable way to label such things... 'deutsch',
'espanol', etc., as the need arises... without dragging country-specific
hierarchies and distributions into it.

Remember, it is perfectly legal to have more than one distribution on a
line - for example, dc-local posts are often tagged with 'md dc va' to
show that they are relevant to the Maryland and Virginia suburbs as well
as to Washington DC.

- Aliza



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