From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: gah! let's try that again - Re: google word list
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:45:33 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

This list has always been intended for plain text and fixed-width
fonts.  Please look up how to get your email program to behave
properly.  Things will look better and work more smoothly, and not
just on this list.  Also, your outgoing messages to others will be
less likely to be falsely flagged as spam.

It's not true that that limits you to English.  Seven-bit ASCII was
long ago extended to the LATIN-1 or ISO-8859-1 code which contains
diacritics and punctuation sufficient to represent all western
European languages.  So if you want to post plain text in Spanish,
French, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, German, or Latin, go for it.
The list will work fine, but of course I can't guarantee that all
subscribers can read your preferred language, but only that it will
appear as it should on their screens.

(I saw at least three WSFA members -- one of whom was giving out
Capclave bookmarks -- at a party on Saturday, at which there was
also a Latin teacher who was fluent in several languages.)

Unfortunately, the list won't support Japanese, Russian, Hebrew,
Greek, or Arabic.  Neither can it be used for posting sounds or
pictures.  It is what it is, and I think it fills a useful niche.