Indology-A Notice

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We don't need an Indology-B. This is Indology-B. I will close Indology-B.

 

But we do need a library or conference room where academic discussions and

postings can be made in a quiet and dignified atmosphere and work, not

debating, can get done. Ergo, Indology-A, which I will open to postings as

soon as the question below is answered. Whether it is used will determine

whether it is continued.

 

To make the contents of Indology-A automatically available to members of

this list, I would have to make everyone here automatically a member of A.

Several objected when Aditya did that some time back. If you object, please

say so, publicly or privately. If a large number (15+) object, I won't do

it at all, and people will simply have to join individually. If only a few

object, I will remove their names and not add them to A. Is that agreeable

to all?? Silence operates as consent.

 

To keep the contents of Indology-A to subjects and messages fit for posting

in a library or academic conference room devoted to Indology, and still give

everyone access to the postings, there must be a moderator of A who decides

what is posted. I will perform this function until the list designates

someone else. I simply won't be able to do it consistently for very long,

and, being unqualified, I will have very few occasions to post there, if

any. If the A list becomes useful, it will simply have to provide a

replacement when I stop, say in a month.

 

Really, it doesn't take much to be a moderator with two channels going. If

the message is rude or non-academic, it can simply be redirected to the B

channel, which handles rudeness another way. One doesn't even have to

decide who is qualified to post. One simply has to act like a librarian and

say "Shhh!" now and then, and deal with customer complaints. Perhaps a

qualified junior, provided he or she does not over-awe easily, would be

best? Nominations, volunteers? You can really make a name for yourself in

a hurry, I would imagine.

 

David

[Guest guest]

> To make the contents of Indology-A automatically available to

members of

> this list, I would have to make everyone here automatically a member

of A.

> Several objected when Aditya did that some time back.

 

Unsolicited, friendly advice - don't do it. Indeed, if those

who want to maintain scholarship are serious, they should take

the lead in doing so. It could have been done easily enough, on

this forum itself. Your efforts in the past seem to have largely

fallen on deaf ears. I must admire the sincerity you bring, but

don't know what to say about the scant response it evokes among

members. Those who want to brawl will brawl.

 

I hereby join the exodus, after one more posting on the Esperanto

translation of the Gita.

 

Vidyasankar