From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: [Request for Correction]To Gnus team -- Gnus Info about spam
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 08:36:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilu65fjszrx.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4n65fjm1ff.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Sun, 11 Jan 2004 01:42:12 -0500")
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> Second, I don't want to invent a country. I happen to think that
> Elbonia, to take the example proposed, is just as insulting to
> Albanians.
I think Elbonia refer to Dilbert.
Feel free to modify the text again, I should have let you, as the
author, fix it.
IMHO, I think Cheng has a point; using a specific country does not
improve the understanding, and may be perceived as insulting,
regardless of the intended meaning. If imaginary country names are
not good, perhaps "a certain region of the world" or something.
Or use Norway. ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-11 7:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-10 7:41 [Request for Correction]To Gnus team -- Gnus Info about spam biased to Chinese Cheng Gao
2004-01-11 1:32 ` [Request for Correction]To Gnus team -- Gnus Info about spam Richard Hoskins
2004-01-11 2:08 ` Simon Josefsson
2004-01-11 4:37 ` Cheng Gao
2004-01-11 6:42 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-01-11 7:36 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2004-01-11 12:35 ` Xavier Maillard
2004-01-11 13:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-01-11 13:52 ` Cheng Gao
2004-01-11 16:00 ` Adam Sjøgren
2004-01-12 21:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-01-13 1:39 ` Cheng Gao
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