Friends.
Our mailing list is a technology list.
Our purpose of having a list is to reach many people as possible.
Though we know many people here personally,
we maintain some guidelines in the list.
We can discuss commercial things here, but with a tag [commercial]
If we talk something offtopic, we do [OffTopic]
We strongly suggest people not to top post.
We advice the beginners not to use SMS Language.
All these are just to ensure that the quality/ethics of the list are maintained.
Chennai, is a multilingual city.
Lot of Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, MorseCode speaking people are in the list.
They all are having the same freedom to discuss in list in their languages.
But, They keep their discussions in English, to maintain
some common mailing list ethics.
If Lynus wishes to send us an email, we would
expect it in English, not in Finnish.
Same is applicable for any language, any person.
As a democratic community, It is our responsibility
to hear and follow the requests of the community.
I Agree that, It may be tough to type in english,
translate in english or add [tamil] tag in the subject.
But, bearing some pain for the community for its request
is a great contribution.
We are working hard on spreading FOSS.
Some of us may focus on spreading Tamil/Telugu/Hindi/Malayalam/MorseCode
Via FOSS and it is our own freedom to spread our own concepts.
But, injecting our personal goals in the public mailing list
when the list has some objections in not a good culture.
Everyone in the list should have the freedom and opportunity to
read the mails, ask questions, and answer to the questions.
Forcefully grabbing their freedom by preventing them
to read/understand the emails is unfair in the list
where we all are spreading the freedom.
To make sure that everyone in the list has the freedom
to read and understand the mails, I request all of us to
inherit the following things in our emails.
1. Have the subject in English
2. Provide a translation of the content in english, if we use any
other language in the content.
Eventhough it is tough and gives pain,
we have to bear the pains to give respect to other's freedom.
Let us stop the language discussion here.
Hope all the language lovers give the freedom to the mailing list
members to know what they are typing.
Thanks.
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Regards,
T.Shrinivasan
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