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Re: SRH reorganization
[ This is a resubmission of an earlier posting. This posting
was sent to SRH, but got posted to news.groups instead. The
submission time mentioned at the bottom of the note was the
original submission time. The resubmission time is around
Tue Dec 19 13:54:18 CST 1995 ]
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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From: Vivek Sadananda Pai <vivek@cs.rice.edu>
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Subject: Re: SRH reorganization
Date: 19 Dec 1995 06:11:13 GMT
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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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