[Ilugc] Request for seminar on 'Free tools in Software Engineering'
- From: sankarshan.mukhopadhyay@xxxxxxxxx (Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay)
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 20:21:28 +0530
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Sundaram KR
<sundaram.ramachandran at kggroup.com> wrote:
The problem arises when we start assuming things. The original email is
addressed to Mr. Baskar in his Linuxpert Systems mailing list; not the ilugc
mailing list. So when Baskar asks for help, one would normally assume he
wants help to conduct on behalf of LinuxPert Systems only, not this list.
There is nothing wrong in doing this, but clarity was missing.
I think I am going to call this one out.
[1] The faculty member wrote to Baskar on his email address. I
couldn't figure how it can be construed as "his Linuxpert Systems
mailing list"
[2] It is somewhat reasonable to formulate a hypothesis that Baskar's
email is widely available because (a) he has been conducting these
events and, (b) perhaps it is search engine friendly
Now, in Baskar's reply he says " ...cannot be handled by me or by my
company,...If anyone does, it will be 'on behalf of ILUG-C' only."
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See? Our assumption was wrong. Why this restriction for anybody else to
conduct only on behalf of ilugc? On what basis is Baskar placing this
restriction on others in this list?
I actually believe that Baskar's response "on behalf ..." is
redundant. Person A writes to Person B, Person A writes to a wider
forum and asks an interested individual to respond to him. Till this
step, there is no indication that Person A desires to make a
commercial enterprise out of it (even if Person A has a commercial
business catering to a similar domain). It is often seen in daily life
that people asking "let me know and, I'll introduce you to them".
If you do have a specific question about the instance, it would
perhaps been better to take it off list and receive assurances.
--
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
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