On 19 Nov 2020 at 10:15p, Andy pondered and said...
Well, I think there are more suitable networks and echo areas for German posts by Memo - like the Usenet. And I'm hard working on it, but actually the polling doesn't work proper yet.
So postings by Memo will stop, and there is no need for an extra echo area.
My feeling is that there's nothing wrong with wanting to communicate in your native language when posting to fsxNet. But the predominant language used
here is English. Personally I find it hard to keep up with any non english conversations and in order to do so must cut/paste text in and out of Google Translate.
You're more than welcome to engage in the network but I do think the creation of a specific echoarea for German conversations would be the best way to go (like we did for our Spanish speaking members).
The benefit of doing this is that it creates a focal point for all conversations in German and reduces the need for people who may otherwise be unable to follow along with a non-english conversation to do so.
The creation of echomail areas is based on a perceived need/demand to do so. With your active posting in German I was thinking of creating this new echo area to provide a space for yourself and anyone else wanting to chat in
German to do so.
The fsxNet is mainly a network for BBS sysops and BBS related topics I think, and not for common communications.
There is a general echomail area for the very reason that not all topics are BBS related :) That said the sorts of subjects and areas of interest for
people who are active in the network are well sign posted in the infopack and general information on the fsxnet.nz website, so what you have read to do should not be a suprise ::)
I hope you continue to engage in the network, but that's up to you. If you do wish to do so and would like to keep posting in German I'll look to set up a general chat echoarea to cater for this and others who want to take part.
Best, Paul
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