On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves
<lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
On Saturday 17 July 2010 13:10:10 senthil raja wrote:ok - I stand corrected and apologise if your feelings have been hurt
thecontinuity - IIT has a staff member in charge so we are assured that
onelist
will continue until he retires - and I am sure he will nominate some
yearsto continue it. I have seen in other LUGs where some person hosts the
list - continuity is dependent on the person. IIT Madras will not fold
up.
For your information, the offer did not come from a single
person.(student/staff). CSMIT offered to host it and CSMIT, in its 30
of operations, has seen many staff in-charge and student officials retirediscontinued.
and the events it had supported has only increased and never
I guess there is no need for separate list for Tamil. One exists already
Also I work in MIT and am aware of the miserable
connectivity and bandwidth it has.
FYI, the servers of csmit.org(for that matter, mitindia.edu) are in USA,
maintained by Dreamhost, one of the best hosting company in the world.
I was under the impression that it is one of the worst in the world. And I
do
not think a LUG mailing list should be hosted in USA. But anyway, that is
beside the point as there is not going to be an official tamil list.
have
Further I do not know whether the people
who have offered to host are staff or students. If they are staff, I
offerno
problem with it as there will be continuity - but if they are students,
there
is no way they can guarantee continuance after they leave.
Again, its not single person who offered it. The offer was made by the
chairman on behalf of CSMIT. I'm its chief executive and assure that
was made with full support of the board of Directors.