It was on Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Indranil Das Gupta typed in this..
>Shourya Sarcar wrote:
>
>> I guess that if unofficially compulsory on all well meaning members..
>
>This is really very vague.... it either has to be compulsory or nothing at all...
>
It is better to keep it vague and allow the office bearers to decide on
what should be the course of action should one member continuously
refrain from paying monthly subscriptions, rather than throw somebody
out because she defaulted.
>> somebody has _real_ problems, her
case may be considered >
>I would have thought that in this age of equal rights & equal opportunities for
>members of both the genders, problems of all members would be treated equally
>irrespective of their gender, you seem to foster different notions... wonder why...
>;-)
>
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This is a quaint feature of the English language which has
percolated since the Elizabethan era. Rather than saying "his/her case
may be considered" or "he/she may have some problems", it is considered
more suave to express applicability of either gender using only the
feminine, rather than being obviously biased when I say "his case may be
considered", keeping in mind that this list has representations of either
gender. I wonder whether this literary chivalry holds in a ourt of law.In
tune with most members of the group (i guess), I am a strong campaigner
against gender bias in any form or kind.
Reminds me, somebody had said a long time ago on this list some
thing to this effect that _he_ would recompile his kernel in pure delight
if he eve saw a female penguin waddling near the SXC Rock. ;) .
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>> I for one, would be ready to volunteer to collect every month a fixed sum
>> from all iluggers in JU.I take the resposibility of somehow getting it
>> accross to Indra / treasurer, if any.
>
>There are around 97 members (locally) of ILUG-Cal located around Calcutta, out of
>these only 7 - 8 people are from JU ..... what about the rest...? Who will go after
>these collections?
>
OK, if you give me a locational distribution of the members , maybe i can
coax and cajole myself to cater to a larger number of people in and
around south calcutta.
>> I think it will be psychologically easier to pay
Rs 10-15 a month than >> dole out a lumpsum 300/- at _any_ time of the
year. > >Sure... but the cost of collection will skyrocket if its done
this way.... it will >also increase accounting overheads ... Have you any
idea just how many cash-in-hand >statements will have to be issued?
Surely thats a problem, but I guess thats better than no-cash-in-hand
statements ;)
Regards
Shourya
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