[Foundation-l] Non-free content on Commons

Wed Apr 1 02:45:20 UTC 2009

2009/4/1 Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 2009/4/1 Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez at gmail.com>:
>> > you'd be annoyed if you started getting lots of bogus messages and silly
>> > jokes on december 28
>>
>> Yes, because December 28 isn't the traditional day for such things. As
>> long as it is just one day a year, it's a bit of fun. If people
>> started doing it on random days, obviously it would be annoying.
>
> Well it CERTAINLY is in all latin america, spain and other latin countries
>
> But we refrain from imposing our sillyness to the rerst of the world

This is a (predominantly) English-language mailing list, so using
those traditions used in the English-speaking world seems to make
sense to me.