[anti-abuse-wg] no whois record for another crappy ISP

U.Mutlu wrote, On 31/01/2012 23:56:
> Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote, On 02/01/12 00:38:
>> On 31 Jan 2012, at 23:22, U.Mutlu wrote:
>>>
>>> What does "Usuario desconocido" mean? :-)
>>
>> User unknown
>>
>>> Am I supposed to know that language? :-)
>>
>> If you want to communicate with a company based in Spain then yes
>
> No thanks! I don't need to learn all the sh*tty languages of all
> the 200 or so countries of the world.

While the default language for use on RIPE mailing lists and at RIPE 
meetings is English, neither that nor any other reason you could come up 
with make the rest of the languages in any way inferior.

>>> Silly practice of making such essential data something different than
>>> english.
>>
>> A simple counter-argument to that is that not everybody speaks English.
>> Why would a Spanish speaker want to deal with an error message in
>> English?
>
> In a global communications infrasture we have to agree on a
> common technical language, and that is de-facto English.
> Unfortunately some prefer their national idiosyncrasies.
> An admin who does not know technical english is for me not worth a cent.

That is up to you, but it's not a topic of conversation for this mailing 
list.

Brian
Co-Chair, RIPE AA-WG