// 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.//
I do not find anything that is of advisory kind to the other side..
If it is advising only one end, it is biased & suppressive.
The shall be statement, in the guideling stating that,
//
This is a Chennai-Tamilnadu based mailing list & there are people interested
in expressing their FOSS related activites and events they conduct in Tamil.
Hence there shall be occasional mails/ replies in Tamil. New joiners-existing
list members who are of other kind are advised to make notice of this and
respect the freedom of localites.
There shall be some occasional lapses. Please do not jerk under such
situation.
//
If this could also be added to list guidelines, then tagging any "direct mail"
to ILUGC with [?????] can be accepted.
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