Time for 8 bit news, isn't it? - Haven't got the slightest

[Guy Middleton]

In article <1092 at mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> p576spz at mpirbn.UUCP (S.Petra Zeidler) writes:
> In article <1990Jul21.174535.8281 at lokkur.dexter.mi.us> scs at lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) writes:
> >Hey, news is ASCII-based, written in english-speaking countries for
> >english-speaking readers.
> 
> I don't think so at all; if I read the authors' names and origins, it seems to
> me that no mean part of postings to the world-wide newsgroups is NOT written
> in English-spoken countries. 

Steve was not talking about postings; he meant that the software was written
by English-speakers.