I have seen messages in several languages on the list and think it is a very
healthy sign of the international milieu in which we all work.

Harry Needham
Canadian War Museum

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> From:         Per Rekdal[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To:     Museum discussion list
> Sent:         Tuesday, November 16, 1999 9:07 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Global list?
>
> The list is made up by those participating. You cannot ask the Americans
> to
> be less US-oriented when their US-orientation actually works.
>
> When some of the Americans ask about things European, they receive answers
> - also from Europe. Which proves that there are Europeans out there
> reading
> messages, but mostly otherwise silent. The challenge for us non-US is to
> use the list actively.
>
> If Germans used the List as if it was German, French as if it was French,
> Dutch as if it was Dutch, and all of us as if it was global ... well it
> might definitely be fruitful. At least for a while.
>
> Another thing with relevance to the above: I have noticed a couple of
> messages in Spanish. Would messages in German and French and Japanese and
> Russian and Chinese be just as welcome, or is this an English-language
> List?
>
>
> Per B. Rekdal
> Museumsleder/Museum Director
> Universitetets etnografiske museum
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