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Re: SRH reorganization
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Subject: Re: SRH reorganization
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From: Vivek Sadananda Pai <vivek@cs.rice.edu>
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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 11:00:23 -0600 (CST)
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Apparently-To: <srh@rbhatnagar.csm.uc.edu>
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Newsgroups: news.groups
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Organization: Rice University
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References: <4b249r$8vu@babbage.ece.uc.edu>
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In article <4b249r$8vu@babbage.ece.uc.edu>,
Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian <rbalasub@ecn.purdue.edu> wrote:
>editor@rbhatnagar.csm.uc.edu (Ajay Shah) wrote
>Certainly, if Vaishnavism is some thing apart from Hinduism, why are these
>people interested in controlling the news-group?
They are not. The proponents and the moderators are different people,
and the moderators are the ones who "control" the newsgroup. Ajay Shah
was asked to be a moderator in the reorg proposal, but he declined.
There's no attempt to somehow "control" the newsgroup - if that were
the case, why was Ajay asked to be a moderator?
For the record, the proposed moderators are:
Moderator: Srinivas Kandala <srini@inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca>
Moderator: Anshuman Pandey <apandey@u.washington.edu>
Moderator: Srini Pichumani <srini@eecs.umich.edu>
Moderator: Raghu Seshadri <seshadri@cup.hp.com>
And I don't remember any of these gentlemen being involved with the
SRV proposal.
>If these people start controlling the
>news-group, I strongly suspect that some of my posts accepted by the
>present moderator (Ajay Shah) wouldn't be accepted for the sole reason that I
>am against the interpretations of these folks.
Once again, I would like to point out that Ajay Shah was asked to be
a moderator, so your suspicions are unfounded.
>One begins to suspect that these
>people are trying to dismantle the news-group so that no opinions contrary to
>their own are heard on the net. Some people call this the Ostrich syndrome.
a) nobody is trying to dismantle the newsgroup - the reorg proposal
will create _more_ groups devoted to Hinduism, not less.
b) nobody is trying to control opinions - in fact, one of the
newsgroups will be _unmoderated_, so that if anyone feels the
moderator is trying to be biased, there's still a forum where that
person can be heard.
>Shri Bhatnagar had it 100.1% correct when he called this proposal childish
>behavior.
Unfortunately, rather than discuss the proposal at length, most of his
posting consisted of personal attacks and inaccurate information.
After all, the fact that Ajay Shah was offered a moderator position in
the proposed reorg would show that there's no attempt to control the
newsgroups, but neither Ajay or Raj mentioned this. I would guess that
if they had mentioned it, it would be a lot harder to make some of the
accusations they did.
-Vivek
(submitted around Mon Dec 18 10:59:46 CST 1995)
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