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Re: Aaargh! —Marco Berti

(...) Dalle grandi societa' non ci si puo' aspettare nulla di meglio. Non sei riuscito a sapere se li hanno rispediti alla societa' madre o se li hanno distrutti? Marco (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.loc.it)

Re: Aaargh! —Mario Ferrari

marco berti <arcmberti@dinet.it> wrote (...) li (...) Non ancora. Però devo richiamare lunedì. Poi vi so dire. Mario (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.it)

Cross posting in eu (was: Aaargh!) —Eric Hampusgård

marco berti wrote ... or something ... (...) li (...) Umm, I don't want to interupt an interesting conversation here, but when you're cross posting to lugnet.loc.eu could you please keep to english. There are some of us who have minor difficulties (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.loc.it)

Re: Cross posting in eu (was: Aaargh!) —Marco Berti

(...) I apologize for all the time I made you waste opening my message written in Italian. I can insure you such a big tragedy will never happen in future and I thank you a lot for having spent much more of your time to write your reply to me Marco (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.loc.it)

Re: Cross posting in eu (was: Aaargh!) —Eric Hampusgård

marco berti wrote... (...) in (...) thank you (...) Oh, it was all fun. I actually tried to understand what you wrote, unsuccessfully of course. As you see I don't mind taking the time answering you again, most likely depending on me having a heck (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)

Re: Cross posting in eu (was: Aaargh!) —Richard Franks

(...) (URL) usually quite good, although it came up with this (Marco): "From the great societies us puo' not to expect better null. Not six successful one to knowing if them they have rispediti to the society mother or if they have destroyed them?" (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)

Re: Cross posting in eu (was: Aaargh!) —Jeff Thompson

(...) you (...) Heh. (...) For what it's worth, it doesn't seem inappropriate to me to crosspost a message in Italian to .eu. Europe is a polyglot of languages, and I wouldn't be surprised to see posts in .eu in many different languages. (Not that (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.loc.it)

Re: Cross posting in eu (was: Aaargh!) —Giulio Ferrari

(...) IMHO, I don't agree. I'd surely be quite upset finding a non-english (and non-italian of course :-) message in loc.eu I see cross-posting as a great advantage, but I can't see the advantage of writing in other languages in this NG... Every (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.loc.it)

Re: Cross posting in eu (was: Aaargh!) —Ardjan Besse

Op een zekere dag, te weten Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:47:44 GMT, klom "Nephilim" <jthompson@esker.com> in het toetsenbord en schreef ons: (...) Right, there are a lot of languages in Europe, and just a small part of Europe has english as national (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)

Re: Cross posting in eu (was: Aaargh!) —Simon Denscombe

(...) Maybe we should try to persuade Todd to integrate some translation software into this newsgroup. I've added lugnet.admin.general (...) Unfortunately I can only do English, the French of an 8 year old and very limited German, probably aged 3. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Cross posting in eu (was: Aaargh!) —Jasper Janssen

(...) I'd rather not.. Translation software is kind of icky in general, and copyright issues I think would make automated translation a rather expensive proposition. At most a URL to babelfish or something like that. (...) Ah, but the French have (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Cross posting in eu (was: Aaargh!) —Mario Ferrari

(...) software (...) I agree. Look at this experiment (babelfish): Your original sentence: "I'd rather not.. Translation software is kind of icky in general, and copyright issues I think would make automated translation a rather expensive (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)

Re: Cross posting in eu (was: Aaargh!) —Simon Denscombe

In article <Fn18nI.81s@lugnet.com>, mario.ferrari@edis.it says... (...) Spanish is taught in some schools as the easier option for the educationally challenged :-) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)

Re: Cross posting in eu (was: Aaargh!) —Simon Denscombe

In article <38b45681.435745144@...gnet.com>, jasper@janssen.dynip.com says... (...) I thought that might be a problem but I asked anyway. (...) Maybe difficult when trying to read whole threads but it'll do for now. (...) More reasons not to (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Cross posting in eu (was: Aaargh!) —Jasper Janssen

(...) [this was about the loc groups and unreadable things] (...) By the way, I did notice a babelfish option where you type in a URL, and it provides a translation. Witrh a bit of naughty reverse-engineering by me, the following URL will result in (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)

Re: Cross posting in eu (was: Aaargh!) —Mario Ferrari

(...) Sorry Eric. Probably my Italian friends didn't realize they were crossposting to loc.eu. I know the topic is someway local, but I wrote the original message in English and cross-posted here because I thought the matter was representative of (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)

Re: Cross posting in eu (was: Aaargh!) —Eric Hampusgård

Mario Ferrari wrote... (...) Of course I do. I never meant to sound grumpy, just wanted to point out that local groups may have to watch out for x-posting. Not the least me, since I guess even fewer people know swedish. =) Now, lets plan a fun (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)