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Re: Is Improvement of Hindu Newsgroups the Goal?
Namaskar Ken ji,
On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, Ken Stuart wrote:
> On 11 Jan 1996 06:18:05 GMT, Ajay Shah <editor@rbhatnagar.csm.uc.edu>
> wrote in soc.religion.hindu:
>
>
> I don't know about the proponents, but I find nothing wrong with your
> proposal above.
Thank you. This is the proposal I had made in the very first post since
the re-org RFD appeared. But these theme based additional newsgroups
were rejected by the proponents of re-org on questionable grounds.
>
> Since this is what you want, it very strongly implies:
>
> 1) You don't object to adding soc.relgion.hindu.info and
> talk.religion.hindu on grounds of not enough traffic, since you
> yourself have just proposed 5 new hindu newsgroups.
>
> 2) You would agree to the proposed compromise as long as it includes
> the above 5 new hindu newsgroups, since you have clearly stated that
> including these 5 newsgroups would demonstrate that the proponents'
> only motive is improving SRH, and since you haven't made substantive
> criticisms of the compromise itself, you must not find any fault with
> it.
The above implications are incorrect! I do not think that there is
enough traffic to justify soc.religion.hindu.info type newsgroups. While
SRV, and proposed SRH.Shivaite, SRH.vedas etc. may induce new discussions
and welcome additional posters to post indepth articles on these topics.
A bhajan newsgroup such as SRH.bhajans will inspire many to posts bhajans
and prayers for frequently. I fail to see how srh.info will prompt additional
"info" type postings. A general newsgroup such as this one (SRH), with the
present traffic of about 10-15 posts per day of non-RFD posts should suffice
for these purposes.
Also, as I have mentioned before, we can start with creating some of the
newsgroups that I have mentioned, and then as demand/readership
increases, more and more newsgroups are added in this hierarchy.
> Ken
regards,
ajay shah
editor@rbhatnagar.csm.uc.edu
ajay@mercury.aichem.arizona.edu
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