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- From: a.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kumar Appaiah)
- Date: Wed Jul 14 19:21:10 2010
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 06:53:53PM +0530, Ashish Bhatia wrote:
I am a north Indian and a regular reader of this mailing list for
about 2 years now. And I should say that I am equally annoyed by those
tamil emails as some members of this mailing list are by the one
written in Morse code.
Personally, I am not annoyed, but just less likely to read the mail if
an English translation of _at least_ the subject or summary is not
provided (because my mail client isn't Indic script supporting, and I
am too lazy to go read the mail in a browser). While people, I guess,
are free to post in Tamil, they can not hope to reach the complete
audience with their query or whatever they wish to share. If they are
fine with that, then I don't see an issue.
Even though the decision regarding Tamil is in the hand of community
[and admins], my personal opinion is to make a separate list [of
Tamil] and the monthly mailing list reminder mail can contain info
about that as well. Otherwise, I am afraid if the number of Tamil
mails grew than [annoyed] people like me have to leave, making this a
Tamil-speakers-only list, it is for the admins whether it aligns with
the vision of this LUG community or not.
If local language mail which you can't read become an eyesore, you can
just move it aside, I guess. A separate mailing list might lead to
fragmentation, but I am unsure.
(morse code idea was impressive :) )
Actually, that isn't fully representative. The Morse code at least has
(several) translators online which can be used by anyone who doesn't
know Morse code. In case of Tamil, it is virtually impossible for
non-Tamil readers to figure it out without help from a Tamil
person.
Kumar
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