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SRH Reorg Bias: Where Wasn't RFD Posted?



Dear Friends,

Saprem Namaskar.

Here is another factor you may wish to consider while you 
make up your mind about the political and personal vendetta
that the proponents of SRH Re-org have decided to carry out.

As some netter have noticed, the Reorgaization RFD was posted on
the newsgroups:

news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, soc.culture.indian,
alt.india.progressive, soc.religion.vaishnava, soc.religion.hindu,
soc.religion.eastern

and mailing lists:

HSC mailing list <hsc@umdnj.edu>
Indology mailing list <indology@liverpool.ac.uk>
Indo-European list <indoeuropean-l@cornell.edu>

Isn't it strange to see alt.india.progressive, Indology mailing 
list and Indo-European Mailing list included, but all the 
India related soc.culture.india.* and soc.culture.* groups left
out?  Neither was the RFD posted to The Hindu Digest nor Sanskrit Mailing
List!

When this was pointed out, it was claimed that there is a 200 line limit 
in the newsgroup line etc., and that there was no ulterior motive in not 
posting it to other Indian newsgroups.

So once again, I checked up the charter of SRV.  The RFD proposed by
and or supported by many of the same proponents was posted on the 
following newsgroups:

news.announce.newgroups,
news.groups,
alt.religion.vaisnava,
soc.culture.indian,
soc.culture.indian.marathi,
soc.culture.indian.kerala,
soc.culture.tamil,
alt.culture.karnataka,
soc.religion.hindu

So while the proponents found it necessary to post the SRV RFD to many of the
SCI.* groups, they did not find it necessary to post this particular RFD to
the same newsgroups.  Instead, they selected Alt.India.Progressive, where
many of the people are not very interested in religion etc. anyway!

So the saga of petty politiking and double standard continues.  Imposing the
moderation criteria on SRH that were not imposed on SRV, posting the 
charter to the newsgroups were SRV charter was not posted...all for a 
simple reason, I, expressed my opinion that the word Hindu be included in 
the name of newsgroup Soc.religion.Vaishnava.

Once again, if the intention is to expand the Hindu newsgroups, let's consider
it along the lines of SRV, with newsgroups devoted to specialized topics
such as:

soc.religion.hindu.shivaite
soc.religion.hindu.vedas
soc.religion.hindu.puranas
soc.religion.hindu.bhajans
etc. etc.

if there is sufficient interest.

regards,

ajay shah
ajay@mercury.aichem.arizona.edu
editor@rbhatnagar.csm.uc.edu