* Thanks to NRCFOSS-AU-KBC, We are all set to hold our sixth month meeting on
FOSS subjects preferably with Tamil as medium of communication. (the meeting
was conducted today) (We are part of this LUG, and we consider this also as
one of the activities by its participants)
* I being the co-ordinator, used to send invitation e-mails, reminder e-mails
to ILUGC as well as other mailing list that includes Free Tamil Computing,
Ubuntu Tamils etc., This is something that has been happening for almost five
months now.
* And notice all mails are in Tamil. Occasionally there used to be even cross
posting between one or two lists mentioned above about these events.
* Unfortunately, I had to be in my village (which is yet to get even computers
in its households) and was left without any internet.
* Since it was time to send a notice about this month's meeting, I had
requested the person (I am avoiding the name here) who sent the original
invite to the meet.
* I noticed it is this mail that caused all that followed. If noticed the mail
evidently didn't have the [TAMIL] tag and it was also a cross post. And in the
past, most of the direct mails didn't have the tag too.
* There is obviously no need of such a tag to other mailing lists to which the
mail was sent, hence incidentally, that person could have sent it to all lists
together. This is another case, where tagging might go missing, but can be
prevented.
* People in this list could have hinted the sender, that the mail is in Tamil
& could have had the tag [TAMIL] and left it at that point.
* But that is not what all that happened. Following all the suppressive mails
that was triggered, probably, the co-ordinator of the list, in a good
intention of not to hurt them, decided and drafted the new guidelines.
* Something that was not there has been included, due to the deliberate
activities of few who fuelled the flame and it doesn't have any signs of having
listened to our pleas.
* Probably, some one could have conveyed to them, at the outset that Tamil
postings are part of this list for quite some time, asking them to be calm.
* Unfortunately even that did not happen. That would have even stopped it
there itself.
* So if a guideline is set there instructing post in Tamil to be of certain
kind, then the same guideline should also state to other side to live in peace
on seeing such mails, even some occasional lapses.
* There is nothing worng in reminding us time and again.
* As a whole, I would like express this has deeply hurt us.
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