Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-27 Thread Udhay Shankar N
rene, spoofing va, wrote [on 4/27/2008 4:53 PM]: nothing is like it seems to be. This, like so many other declarative statements, is context-sensitive. as Madhu M. Kurup mentioned, the golden rule: -- Assume Goodwill. Indeed. More on this below. who missed the initial mail on this

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-27 Thread ss
On Sunday 27 Apr 2008 4:53:49 pm va wrote: I am Rene, Hi Rene. Question: Did you misuse Dinesh's email id too? Would you be in a position to misuse mine? shiv

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-27 Thread rene
Hi ss, ss wrote: Question: Did you misuse Dinesh's email id too? Would you be in a position to misuse mine? No, never misused Dinesh's id (don't get the point why this touches your interest), and only 'mis'used email-id's once in a while to send friends birthday greetings from the president

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-27 Thread ashok _
this thread is now the second hit on google for the word 'janastu' time to change the product name ...the thread makes everyone involved look like a candidate crazy person? On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 11:15 PM, rene wrote: ss wrote: Question: Did you misuse Dinesh's email id too? Would you

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-27 Thread ss
On Monday 28 Apr 2008 1:45:21 am rene wrote: (don't get the point why this touches your interest), and only 'mis'used email-id's once in a while to send friends birthday greetings from the president of the berlin senate or alike. And, would you (!) be in a position to misuse my postal

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-27 Thread Udhay Shankar N
ss wrote, [on 4/28/2008 6:04 AM]: My defences go up when a person misuses email ids and says trust me even if he is otherwise like Mother Teresa. It is not normally necessary for people to go about things in this way. Such a person may not be bad - but he is certainly different and I make a

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-21 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
Deepa Mohan said the following on 19/04/2008 21:36: told that I am signed out of Gmail when I am not; then I have to go and clear the cache and do sundry other chores to get that message off. Can't say, because it's never happened to me. And to go back to the email id thread, I have done

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-19 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Friday 18 April 2008, Tea BeeDi wrote: [snip] Several reasons for sharing. First like ss indicated kind of: its sharing. I have a feeling Silk can do a longer list of 'why share', than I can imagine. Maybe its a generational thing :) ss got it! like sharing when computer was not an

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-19 Thread ss
On Saturday 19 Apr 2008 9:38:49 pm Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: when posts are not attributed to a single person, is the average of all its contributing identities. A sort of chaotic hive mind, simultaneously intelligent, decent, insightful and an anonymous troll. Also deceitful. Many people

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-19 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Thursday 17 April 2008, Hassath wrote: [snip] been many friends reading the posts using that subscription. (Of course, like it was pointed out, since it's a publicly archived list, access to the posts is not difficult. Not only publically archived, but with demonstrably high Google juice

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-19 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Saturday 19 April 2008, ss wrote: [snip] The implication of those examples may be far more serious than that of a group posting as one on silk - but the deceit, combined with evasion of individual responsibility makes it comparable IMO. I will agree with that. This is no different from

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-19 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
On a tangent, I have a seven-year-old, and I can fairly quickly spot attention-seeking behaviour. TBD is just that - interesting math, though, several presumably teenage and twenty-somethings averaging to seven - so the best thing to do is to ignore it. Them. Whatever. Ram

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-19 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a tangent, I have a seven-year-old, and I can fairly quickly spot On another tangent, why does gmail keep asking me to invite silk-list to gmail? Googlers, can't you identify a list? Perhaps this is not a

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-19 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a tangent, I have a seven-year-old, and I can fairly quickly spot On another tangent, why does gmail keep asking me to

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-19 Thread Madhu M. Kurup
Hmm: ss wrote: Also deceitful. For some strange reason (perhaps I'm just contrarian today), I feel that this has gone on a bit much. From http://silk.arachnis.com/, -- Since then, a Rule Zero has emerged, in addition to the two above: Assume Goodwill. -- Since tbd@ hasn't trolled or

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-19 Thread Madhu Menon
Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: On another tangent, why does gmail keep asking me to invite silk-list to gmail? Googlers, can't you identify a list? GMail sometimes marks messages from Google's own services as spam sometimes. Calendar reminders, Google group membership messages have all been

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-19 Thread Biju Chacko
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Madhu M. Kurup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm: ss wrote: Also deceitful. For some strange reason (perhaps I'm just contrarian today), I feel that this has gone on a bit much. From http://silk.arachnis.com/, -- Since then, a Rule Zero has emerged,

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-18 Thread Madhu Menon
ss wrote: More to the point - should a shared email id be used for a list membership? When the list archives are public, there is hardly any need for this. -- * Shiok Far-eastern Cuisine Indiranagar, Bangalore Visit us @ http://www.shiokfood.com Book your table online:

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-18 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
More to the point - should a shared email id be used for a list membership? So isn't that a list subscribing to a list? Then should silk-list now subscribe to the TBD list? Suresh, would that make your mailserver cry? Ram

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-18 Thread va
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Tea BeeDi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still not sure what you want a clarification. I said its shared. So if Kavita has introduced herself to you and its tbd.lists, you know who it is. I don't recall reading that part. Although its in my face that LC is

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Ramakrishnan Sundaram [18/04/08 13:08 +0530]: More to the point - should a shared email id be used for a list membership? So isn't that a list subscribing to a list? Then should silk-list now subscribe to the TBD list? Suresh, would that make your mailserver cry? Ask it yourself next time

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-18 Thread Tea BeeDi
i -d On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 12:18 AM, va [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think I even can recognize more of you than va from the silk archives, http://www.mail-archive.com/silklist@lists.hserus.net/msg09746.html http://www.mail-archive.com/silklist@lists.hserus.net/msg09748.html

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-17 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 16-Apr-08, at 9:29 PM, Thaths wrote: Barring evidence to the contrary, my reading of the situation is that Tea Beedi is trolling and basking in the attention and is busy making profound academic social observations. Nothing to see under this bridge, folks. Just your garden variety troll.

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-17 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 17-Apr-08, at 11:30 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: Dinesh makes his home available to friends and visitors passing through Bangalore. Any random evening there will see a rather interesting line-up around the dinner table -- of both genders. Related reading:

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-17 Thread Hassath
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] It is not entirely inconceivable that the same philosophy extends to sharing a mail account with not-particularly-technophile friends who want to dip into a list without committing to it. I don't see why he

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-17 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Hassath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] It is not entirely inconceivable that the same philosophy extends to sharing a mail account with not-particularly-technophile friends

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-17 Thread Thaths
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16-Apr-08, at 9:29 PM, Thaths wrote: Barring evidence to the contrary, my reading of the situation is that Tea Beedi is trolling and basking in the attention and is busy making profound academic social

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-17 Thread ss
On Thursday 17 Apr 2008 11:30:19 am Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: It is not entirely inconceivable that the same philosophy extends to   sharing a mail account with not-particularly-technophile friends who   want to dip into a list without committing to it. With respect - there is a problem with

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-17 Thread Tea BeeDi
Sorry was out of town. Just saw the discussions and want to respond something even if its late after travel and all. -d va, I am still not sure what you want a clarification. I said its shared. So if Kavita has introduced herself to you and its tbd.lists, you know who it is. I don't recall

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-17 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 21:21 +0530, ss wrote: Therefore any technophile wanting to share an email id is likely to maintain a kind of trash free for all email id that is not personally important to him if he wanted everyone to share it, while reserving another email id for one's own

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-17 Thread ss
On Friday 18 Apr 2008 2:45:10 am Tea BeeDi wrote: . Do we need to sit together and watch something? Went to a movie couple of days ago with friends. Why is that strange enough to mention even? People have forwarded many things from lists to friends. We know the pain of such forwards. As I

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-17 Thread Udhay Shankar N
I am also seriously pondering the option of asking the tbd collective to unsubscribe from silk and ask to be individually added. I find the various arguments in favour of some unnamed collective posting on THIS particular list unconvincing, and might do a more detailed deconstruction of exactly

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-17 Thread ss
On Friday 18 Apr 2008 9:59:07 am Udhay Shankar N wrote: I am currently in a hut in the Nilgiris Lucky bugger. I am jealous. May your Vodka be dilute - of better still may it turn out to be whisky. shiv

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-16 Thread va
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:42 AM, Tea BeeDi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: va, Not so much of a gender crisis I think. This id is shared by some friends. ...But your friend (Kavita Philip) wrote to me saying that she does not remember the password and hence has not accessed tbd DOT lists AT gmail

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-16 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:04 PM, va [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] of Jan10 gives to the list. If that is not the case, it will be better that you send a clarification mail to IndiChix explaining how things stand, since you are still subscribed there. Why isn't this thread occurring on

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-16 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why isn't this thread occurring on IndiChix? I mean, I am all for random conversation on Silk, and especially ones that are as curious as this, but yeah, why not? I am actually curious about this particular nym

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-16 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 16-Apr-08, at 1:49 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: I am actually curious about this particular nym (Tee Beedi). Comes from the initials: T. B. Dinesh

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-16 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am actually curious about this particular nym (Tee Beedi). Comes from the initials: T. B. Dinesh I meant, the activities of this nym. Playing games with identity et al. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-16 Thread ashok _
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Tea BeeDi wrote, [on 4/16/2008 9:12 AM]: va, Not so much of a gender crisis I think. This id is shared by some friends. Why? Udhay let me explain, because I completely understand... its like three friends sharing a toothbrush,

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-16 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:06 PM, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: let me explain, because I completely understand... its like three friends sharing a toothbrush, a pillow, an ice-cream, a pillow etc I just cannot resist asking, why does the use of the pillow intersperse the use of

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-16 Thread Thaths
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and I am probably rushing in where angels fear to tread , but I will play my older person card here, and observe that (in my opinion) VA sounds upset, so Tea BeeDi should write (whether on-list or off-list) and

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-16 Thread ashok _
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Thaths wrote: Nothing to see under this bridge, folks. Just your garden variety troll. A garden-variety troll with a pony tail mind you...! they don't always come with that (at least the ones i dig up in my garden)

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-16 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 16:23 +0530, va wrote: Kavita (another woman, who was also at the LCIN BoF and is presently in USA according to her mail to the LCIN mailing-list) meanwhile used a different mail id when she sent a mail to Runa (Sankarsan's wife) and me. So could the real Kavita or is it

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-16 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 08:59 -0700, Thaths wrote: Barring evidence to the contrary, my reading of the situation is that Tea Beedi is trolling and basking in the attention and is busy making profound academic social observations. tea beedi sounds like an attempt to make a cool indian neoist

[silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-15 Thread va
Rene, IIRC you are involved with Janastu (incase you are in Bangalore/India). Anyone else here know the folks behind Janastu ?- to combine forces with schooltool. -- Forwarded message -- From: Ronald Wertlen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:43:28 +0200 Subject:

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-15 Thread va
On 4/15/08, va [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/15/08, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a guy from Janastu on silk .. TB Dinesh (cc'd) Erm... Tea Beedi [EMAIL PROTECTED] said she(he?) was Kavita (whom I met at foss in Dec07) on the Linuxchix-India mailing lists. /me is

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-15 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 va wrote: | After getting Suresh's mail (told him am writing to the list) I | checked the archives of Silk where one thread says the person's real | name is Dinesh BUT the description (glasses, ponytail) matches that of | a person who called himself

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-15 Thread Tea BeeDi
I laughed. I mean you (plural) are funny. Interesting, how some mail somewhere in Africa got caught by the Silk. Here below is the follow up conversation. -dinesh! :) (am now curious about this prashanth, not about kavita) Forwarded conversation Subject: Re: [schooltool] More background on

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-15 Thread va
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramkrsna/2106560440/ is one Dinesh who was there at the LCIN BoF - no clue if he was there was a Dinesh | Prashant as well. ... was that picture taken at the LCIN BoF ? -which

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-15 Thread Tea BeeDi
va, Not so much of a gender crisis I think. This id is shared by some friends. d On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 7:04 PM, va [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramkrsna/2106560440/ is one

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-15 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Tea BeeDi wrote, [on 4/16/2008 9:12 AM]: va, Not so much of a gender crisis I think. This id is shared by some friends. Why? Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))