There was a case several years ago where an op was running a phone patch and
the conversation switched from English to some other language. The op
allowed the call to go on. It later turned out that an illegal activity was
being discussed on this phone patch. I know this is somewhat different but I
can see the concern that a moderator would have and I am sure that he
doesn't have time to be translating multiple messages posted to this board.
73 Mark N1UK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Subich, W4TV" <lists@subich.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, 26 April, 2010 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Spanish-language conversation on baluns, antennas
>
> 1) If this list hadn't take the backward step of making the only
> way one can reply to a message "reply to list," the private
> and non-English postings would not have to go to the entire
> list.
>
> 2) it is ridiculously simple to copy/paste a non-English e-mail
> into the "translate" box at http://www.google.com/language_tools
> if the moderator can not read a language and needs to determine
> whether the posting is "appropriate."
>
> Google does a more than adequate job of translation on many
> languages - even some that are rarely encountered by most
> English speakers. I make regular use of the language tools,
> particularly for customer support.
>
> 73,
>
> ... Joe, W4TV
>
> On 4/26/2010 1:11 PM, David Gilbert wrote:
>>
>>
>> How exactly do you or KT9OM expect Steve to moderate the list (and
>> history has shown that he does indeed need to monitor the list for
>> relevancy and decorum) if postings are in Spanish (or any other
>> language)? And I think it's pretty clear from his "shouted" posting
>> that he had already previously asked for it to stop. Everyone gets
>> frustrated when they get ignored.
>>
>> So yes, it is pretty much an English only list, but you know darn well
>> that it isn't restricted in any other way to USA only. This issue has
>> nothing at all to do with whether or not the users of the list speak one
>> language or half a dozen. The issue is whether it is fair to expect
>> Steve to speak enough different languages to be able to monitor the
>> list, or to run everything through an online translator. Clearly it
>> isn't.
>>
>> Dave AB7E
>>
>>
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