Re: tlug: MPT vs. English

[Totoro <riley@example.com>]

On 08-Oct-98 Jonathan Byrne - 3Web wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Totoro wrote:
> 
>>later would be simple; I don't think netnews is very widely used in
>>Japan yet, though. Maybe after the MPT's latest proposal gets put
>>into place and everything that enters Japan's net is translated into
>>Nihongo before any user sees it (HAH!!).....
> 
> No!  Did they really propose that?!  (snortgigglechokechoke)

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...
 
> Quite a few of our users do "read" newsgroups (alt.binaries groups are
> popular), and the Japanese newsgroups that are out there do seem fairly well
> used.  I don't know what percentage of our members are reading news, but I
> know we added several new news servers this year to keep up with things.

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

David Riley

Hachinohe Institute of Technology
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