Hello, Lately there has been a flamewar of sorts gaining momentum on the ilug-cal website wrt comments from one Ms.Ranjabati Sen about the meeting/seminar at HIT. I was not present at HIT on this occasion and hence am not in a position to offer comments for/against the meeting and its status.
This mail is against the insults that have been directed against a seemingly decent lady. From what she writes, Ms.Sen appears to be an elderly lady who has been associated with LUGs and their activities for a considerable period of time------and you have the audacity to call her a WITCH. That too on a publicly accessible website. Leaving aside the point that you could be pulled up for showing disrespect to a lady, you are not projecting a pretty picture of the LUG-CAL and yourselves. General list policies and netiquette demand respect towards the poster irrespective of age or gender. A WITCH is one of the most primitive forms of insults [or assaults] used to taint women in societies all over the world. When you intend to assert yourselves then the least you can do is to choose your words with caution. An this is not the first time that gender-related comments have been posted. Just ahead of COMPASS-2003 there were a series of postings by Anirban, Sharninder and a few others on visibly sexually-offensive lines. Later Sharninder even had the gall to call it ~"harmless healthy humour"_______maybe for you. I was not amused. I don't know the exact gender-balance equation of this group, but could the list-admin/co-ordinator please clarify the charter wrt gender-based bashing. I am surprised that the list-admin/web-admin have permitted this thread to reach such proportions. Are women really welcome in this group for the right reasons?? Runa --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.459 / Virus Database: 258 - Release Date: 2/25/03 -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
