From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/55914 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [Request for Correction]To Gnus team -- Gnus Info about spam Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 08:36:02 +0100 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <877k00qmgp.fsf@news.eqiao.com> <4n65fjm1ff.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073806604 9590 80.91.224.253 (11 Jan 2004 07:36:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 07:36:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M4454@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Jan 11 08:36:41 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Afa9J-00035q-00 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 08:36:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Afa8x-0004Lq-00; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 01:36:19 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Afa8p-0004Lk-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 01:36:11 -0600 Original-Received: from yxa.extundo.com (178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net [217.13.230.178]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FE703A0079 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 01:36:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0B7a6An000439 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sun, 11 Jan 2004 08:36:06 +0100 Original-To: Cheng Gao Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Hashcash: 0:040111:chenggao@cyberhut.org:3628be214985cff5 X-Hashcash: 0:040111:ding@gnus.org:0ca3cb9cb683b165 In-Reply-To: <4n65fjm1ff.fsf@collins.bwh.harvard.edu> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Sun, 11 Jan 2004 01:42:12 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55914 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:55914 Ted Zlatanov 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. ;-)