Administration - 2/02 - Use of Archives.

[Guest guest]

Dear Members:

 

1. Last week, I sent a note in which I made some recommendations on

the AcArya prostrations. I got one response, in which the member

indicated that it is best to keep this section to a couple of lines.

This member recommended that the Moderator be authorized to replace

anything longer, with "SrI:, SrImate rAmAnujAya namah". I will wait

for a few more days to see if there are other suggestions, and then

go ahead with the implementation of this suggestion, if there are no

major objections.

 

(One member got the impression from my previous mail on this subject

that I was insisting on at least a couple of lines of prostrations to

AcArya-s. This was not my intent. My intent was that, those who

include this section, should limit it to two or three lines maximum.

It was not my requirement that everyone must include this section).

 

2. A lot of very useful, informative, and educational material is

effectively communicated and exchanged in our forum. Since the

bhakti list has been in active existence for several years now, a lot

of information exchange has taken place, and SrI Mani has had the

foresight to archive all the correspondence in easily accessible and

retrievable form.

 

I would like to make one observation. This relates to the

postings where people ask for information such as the meaning of a

given pASuram, a given stotram, or other informational questions.

Since I have been a member of the forum for a few years now, I

recognize that some of these questions have been discussed before in

quite some detail, and so I have been responding to the members by

first looking at the archives myself, and then giving them the

reference to when the issue has been discussed. My request to the

members is that before they post their questions, they kindly take

some time to go through the archives and see if their question have

already been discussed, and post their question only if they are

unable to get the answer to their question. I assume this is the

purpose of archiving all the correspondence from previous years. So

please make good use of them.

 

I plan to keep sharing observations such as the above periodically,

and I hope these will be of value especially to the newer members of

the bhakti list.

 

-Your Moderator.

[Guest guest]

Agreed! Searching English words are quite easier than hunting Sanskrit or

tamil words. So, to make search easier, can we include a footer which looks

something like "keywords: Tamil Tamizh sandhayavandhanam santhyavandhanam",

containing few commonly used variants of keywords.

 

Adopting this keyword strategy, searching becomes quite easier and results

are more appropriate.

 

If this seems to be feasible, please try to adopt.

 

Thanx,

Narayanan

 

 

champakam [champakam]

Thursday, November 28, 2002 7:05 AM

bhakti-list

Administration - 2/02 - Use of Archives.

 

Dear Members:

 

1. Last week, I sent a note in which I made some recommendations on

the AcArya prostrations. I got one response, in which the member

indicated that it is best to keep this section to a couple of lines.

This member recommended that the Moderator be authorized to replace

anything longer, with "SrI:, SrImate rAmAnujAya namah". I will wait

for a few more days to see if there are other suggestions, and then

go ahead with the implementation of this suggestion, if there are no

major objections.

 

(One member got the impression from my previous mail on this subject

that I was insisting on at least a couple of lines of prostrations to

AcArya-s. This was not my intent. My intent was that, those who

include this section, should limit it to two or three lines maximum.

It was not my requirement that everyone must include this section).

 

2. A lot of very useful, informative, and educational material is

effectively communicated and exchanged in our forum. Since the

bhakti list has been in active existence for several years now, a lot

of information exchange has taken place, and SrI Mani has had the

foresight to archive all the correspondence in easily accessible and

retrievable form.

 

I would like to make one observation. This relates to the

postings where people ask for information such as the meaning of a

given pASuram, a given stotram, or other informational questions.

Since I have been a member of the forum for a few years now, I

recognize that some of these questions have been discussed before in

quite some detail, and so I have been responding to the members by

first looking at the archives myself, and then giving them the

reference to when the issue has been discussed. My request to the

members is that before they post their questions, they kindly take

some time to go through the archives and see if their question have

already been discussed, and post their question only if they are

unable to get the answer to their question. I assume this is the

purpose of archiving all the correspondence from previous years. So

please make good use of them.

 

I plan to keep sharing observations such as the above periodically,

and I hope these will be of value especially to the newer members of

the bhakti list.

 

-Your Moderator.

 

 

 

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