[Ilugc] [உபுண்டு_தமிழ்]கட்டற்ற தமிழ்க் கணிமை கூடுதல்
- From: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx (steve)
- Date: Wed Jul 14 01:03:23 2010
Hi,
On 07/13/2010 11:58 PM, ashwin kesavan wrote:
2010/7/13 Thyagarajan ??????????<citizenofgnu@xxxxxxxxx>:
Hi,
the following one of the two solutions may help the situation.
a) Request the tamil team to post an english translation to the respective
tamil post
or
b) Request them to tag post with [tamil] , so that people who do not need
it, have the facility and freedom to send it to /dev/null
i second this tamil tag approach. Please with/without interest in
tamil posting can have better handling of tamil mails.
+1 for the [tamil] tag. It beautifully fits the Postel's Robustness
Principle[1]
on the list's part.
Reasons:
* The list is mostly English with tamil being the occasional exception
* The insistence for a separate list for tamil posts is not justified, since
- it might split a perfectly good community (most people do not like to be
subscribed to more than one list with the same general agenda)
- the volume of posts in tamil is too low for a separate list
- the [tamil] tag is more elegant since even if we create a different tamil
specific list, the problem will not be solved automatically, the list might
still get a poster who does not know of the existence of the tamil list. OTOH,
if the [tamil] tag is missing, anyone who replies can easily add it to the
reply
so the filters work well (and might also remove an existing tag, if a
translation is posted). Hopefully, this won't break the flow of the
conversation.
cheers,
- steve
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
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