2010/7/15 Rahul Sundaram <[email protected]> > 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 எல்லோரும் எல்லாமும் பெற வேண்டும் http://masivakumar.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
