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Re: Administrivia: Explanation for Rejecting Two Articles
Dear SRH Readers,
Namaskar
On Wed, 14 Feb 1996, Hari Krishna Susarla wrote:
>
> I request that the moderator explain to me, at least in private, what personal
> attacks he supposedly found in my posting "What is Maayaavaadam?" I would then
> like to know why it was accepted for posting to alt.hindu previously, but
> suddenly now it is deemed as having personal attacks. This is a perfect
> example of what I mean when I say the moderator is inconsistent in his
> treatment of personal attacks.
>
I find these statements rather intriguing, especially in the light of the
fact that a detailed and clear explanation was indeed sent to
Shree Susrala, and he responded with two messages.
Since it is not my policy or practice to re-post personal e-mail messages,
I will not post these messages, however, here I post the two
rejection messages with headers so that the netters
may draw their own conclusion. If Shree Susrala wishes, I will also post
his response to my personal messages with the relevent date headers...
My message to Shree Susrala
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>From srh@rbhatnagar.csm.uc.edu Tue Feb 13 01:40:52 1996
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 01:40:50 -0500 (EST) [Note : I am in PST, so it
was on 12 Feb for me]
From: SRH Editor <srh@rbhatnagar.csm.uc.edu>
To: Hari Krishna Susarla <susarla.krishna@studentserver1.swmed.edu>
Subject: Re: Animal-killing and Soul-merging condemned
In-Reply-To: <4fk4bn$r6t@swsu65.swmed.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960213012424.11622B-100000@rbhatnagar>
Namaskar Hari Krishnaji,
May I please request you to reconsider portions of this post that may be
considered as personal attack and revise this post. I have also sent
back a posting by Ramakrishnaji on this topic for the exact same
reasons. I hope that we may all benifit if the personal attacks are
removed from this thread.
I recall our previous communications on the personal attacks. However I
must admit that although your post does not have "X is ..." type of
statement, IMHO, the implications of "X is ..." are there, which is why I
am making this request.
It is generally my philosophy to allow maximum freedom, and in that
spirit I accept many borderline posts (the chest beating post from you
and the response to that from Ramkrishnaji were accepted in that
spirit). However, the two posts I got today, reflect a lot more personal
attacks.
Specifically, I would like to point out the following from this post
which you may consider revising prargraphs containing :
"accumen to perceive"
"foolish generalization"
"nothing intelligent"
"dish it...take it"
Please note that I am not being bias in my approach. And I would
appreciate your cooperation.
regards,
ajay shah
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end of excerpts, HKS responded with 2 messages to that.
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My message to Shree Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian
>From srh@rbhatnagar.csm.uc.edu Mon Feb 12 22:18:18 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 22:18:16 -0500 (EST)
From: SRH Editor <srh@rbhatnagar.csm.uc.edu>
To: Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian <rbalasub@ecn.purdue.edu>
Subject: Re: What is Maayavaadam (Advaita)?
In-Reply-To: <199602122022.PAA26296@lambert.ecn.purdue.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960212221420.11454A-100000@rbhatnagar>
Namaskar,
May I request you (and I am writing a similar message to HKS) to keep
this discussion on a positive note without personal attacks etc.? The
equating of Srila Prabhupada's teaching to comic book etc. may be
offensive to many and could be considered a personal attack.
Also pt. 3 below can be construded as personal attacks.
I would really appreciate your cooperation. As always, your posts are
welcome on SRH
regards,
ajay shah
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Comparision with alt.hindu is not applicable, since the alt.hindu
personal attack policy was implement precisely because of posts such as
these...
I once again seek everyone's cooperation in keeping the newsgroup clean
... free of personal attacks
Regards,
Ajay Shah
Moderator, SRH
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