Re: New spanish sumo bulletin

["Oikeassa I" <lukahana@hotmail.com>]

Sorry, you're right, of course--"Sumo World", not "Sumo Now!" (Apologies to 
you, too, Ken Coller.)


From: "G. Jay Walker" <walker@nhrc.navy.mil>
>To: sumo@sun01pt2-1523.statgen.ncsu.edu
>Subject: Re: New spanish sumo bulletin
>Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 14:30:23 -0700
>
> >Fabulous bulletin (wish I had taken Spanish)! You're already competing 
>favorably (at the very least) with Sumo Now! Get a translator and you will 
>have their business--there might even be a couple of potential customers on 
>this mail list (including me, if the translation you choose is to English).
>
>Let me preface my remarks by saying that I am certainly impressed with the 
>efforts of Leonishiki and his fellow contributors in putting together this 
>bulletin.  Nor is this meant as a criticism of the above remarks.  But I 
>think there should be a little clarification is to what exactly this 
>bulletin is and is not.
>
>When you say that the bulletin is "competing favorably... with Sumo Now!", 
>I wondered if in fact Sumo World was meant.  The layout, design, 
>publication schedule and some of the content in the bulletin are similar to 
>that of Sumo World, while Sumo Now! is a during-basho daily account 
>focusing on descriptions of the individual matches.
>
>And as Leonishiki stated in his post, a good part of the content in the 
>bulletin consists of information posted and translated from the English 
>mailing list.  Kudos to them for taking the initiative to make this 
>information available to a Spanish-speaking audience and for augmenting 
>this material with their own content.  It is a fabulous effort - very 
>professionally done.  But in terms of original content, it doesn't match 
>that of Sumo World.  And I don't think it is intended to, at least at this 
>point.  Sumo World has the advantage of Tokyo-based correspondents, many of 
>them bilingual, and many of them having closely followed sumo for years.  
>The bulletin staff has done a wonderful job, but realize that they're not 
>in a position to fully supplant Sumo World (all this is skirting around the 
>issue of will Sumo World ever get its act together) - all they can do is 
>what they're doing - making the best use of the resources they have 
>available.  The bulletin is a success for what!
>  it is - now Spanish speakers have a top-notch sumo magazine of their own.
>
>-George W

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