Re: tlug: MPT vs. English

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:

    Scott> Newsgroups are just vehicles for spam mail, mostly X rated
    Scott> spam mail.  I haven't seen anything of any meaningful
    Scott> content on any of the groups in quite some time.  Usenet
    Scott> seems to be practically unusable now that it's becoming so
    Scott> over-spammed.  Maybe it should be renamed, "AbuseNet" ?

Scott, I'm shocked.  What newsgroups are you hanging out it?
comp.emacs.xemacs and gnu.emacs.vm.info (or whatever it is) don't have
any such problems.

    Jonathan> On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Totoro wrote:

    >> Right there in the latest Computing Japan (October 98), there is a short
    >> blurb on this. As I look at it, the note does only mention web sites and
    >> email. But the MPT is looking into implementing this by the year 2000...

    Jonathan> I think we could think of things involving 2000 that MPT
    Jonathan> has to worry about a lot more than translating web sites
    Jonathan> into Japanese :-)

Yeah, filtering out binaries, which is what they really have in mind.

    >>> Um, they are "reading" binaries??? ;->  

    Jonathan> Yeah, that's why the quote marks around it :-)

Just like manga.  No?

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