[Ilugc] Request for tamil lovers
- From: masivakumar@xxxxxxxxx (சிவகுமார் மா)
- Date: Thu Jul 15 22:46:39 2010
2010/7/15 Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx>
On 07/15/2010 09:24 PM, ashwin kesavan wrote:
May be you are right. But i suppose he assumes he should be allowed to
post freely in tamil without tagging or anything as this m/l being in
capital of tamil nadu ?? like the way nobody would question posting in
french in a mailing list in paris. How do you counter this?
Pretty easy., The place where a mailing list is hosted doesn't change
netiquette in this context. English is the established medium of
communication in this mailing list. You can't point to a single LUG in
India (or probably globally) which allows mixing languages like that.
Why should this one mailing list be the exception because a couple of
people can't be bothered to tag mails to enable rest of us to do
filtering? If everyone else wants tagging, they should just oblige.
Anything else is just plain rude.
Rahul,
Most of us (include me) are taking part in these discussions as a side issue
(to support our day job which earns us Rs). There are others who are on
their feet, pounding the streets of villages and small towns and they may
have a different perspective.
Just imagine a person who is skilled in IT, but not comfortable
communicating in English (can not translate!). Should (s)he be out these
discussion groups? Even though, rationally I can not agree with Amachu's
stand, I can understand his principle from that perspective.
We must have a provision for such a hypothetical person to participate.
Please have a re look at this.
We will try to tag and translate as much as possible, if the original sender
failed to do that. We can also look at automatic tagging by the list, if it
is possible.
Best regards,
Ma Sivakumar
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http://masivakumar.blogspot.com
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