the language

[Max Pyziur]

Just to add one more vote to those of Mr. Bobick, Bermel, and Mr.
Jameson. I would ask the moderator to refrain.  It's a continuing source
of irony that a list dedicated to Slavic and East European languages,
especially those which use a non latin derived alphabet has 99 & 44/100%
of its postings in English.

As for the techncial concern, one of serveral alternatives to read my
email - a telnet session to a Unix server where I use elm, a
Win95/Eudora Lite 3.0.5 combination, Linux 2.0.35 w/ Netscape 4.7 as my
email client - no problems in seeing the postings in their alphabet of
choice.

Those who need some links as to how to configure their systems can start
here:
http://www.brama.com/compute - you'll find a some guides for PCs and
Macs; maybe someday I'll add my two cents to the Linux Cyrillic HOWTO
on how I've got Linux system setup - one telnet setup w/ a KOI8 font,
one w/ a CP1251 font, running Accelerated-X for my X-server which has a
nifty True Type Font server, enabling me to use all of my eight bit
Cyrillic TTFs.

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Max Pyziur                                     BRAMA - Gateway Ukraine
pyz at brama.com                                  http://www.brama.com/


Neil Bermel wrote:
>
> If it's truly a source of annoyance to get messages you can't read,
> many mail programs (such as Pegasus Mail and Eudora) can easily be
> set to filter out messages from a particular address.  You could
> identify particular list members who tend to write in Cyrillic and have
> your mailer dump those messages straight in the trash.  After you'd
> been doing this for a short while, it would achieve much the same goal
> as asking the moderator to block them manually, while allowing those
> with the _tekhnika_ to do so read on.
>
> Neil
>
> Date sent:              Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:46:50 +0900
> Send reply to:          "SEELangs: Slavic & E. European Languages &
 literatures list"
>             <SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
> From:                   Yoshimasa Tsuji <yamato at yt.cache.waseda.ac.jp>
> Subject:                the language
> To:                     SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
>
> > Dear Alex,
> >   I wish the moderator would automatically remove all those
> > unreadable e-mails (as I see it, it seems I need to run
> > a Microsoft product that handles "printed-quotable" encoding
> > and a "koi8-r" fonts, which my ancient unix system refuses to
> > understand).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Tsuji
>
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> Neil Bermel
> Sheffield University
> Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies
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> Sheffield S10 2TN United Kingdom
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