Re: Mailing list in French

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 01:40:31PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On 19 Aug 2003 at 10:01, Francois Suter wrote:
>
> > I am pleased to announce the start of a PostgreSQL general mailing list
> > in French. Its name is pgsql-fr-generale. I hope many of you will join
> > it so that we can make it an interesting place.
>
> Well, the idea of mailing list is to exchange information and help each other.
> Obviously if few great things happen on some mailing list and others don't come
> to know it, defeats the purpose of having a mailing list.

Yeah, but there's not too much you can do about it.  You can check what
goes on in the spanish list at
http://tlali.iztacala.unam.mx/mailman/listinfo/pgsql-ayuda

There's a respectable amount of traffic, and I don't think there's
anyone who would want to translate it.


> As an experiment can we have a translation gateway so that these two lists, in
> general and french-general can interact? I mean the idea should be to help
> people getting communicate better rather than having a separate list as such.

Err... and who is doing the work, exactly?  (Maybe Google or Babelfish?
Care to set it up?)

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