Further thoughts

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Dear Dr. Wujastyk,

 

I reproduce below one your last messages on the old Indology list.

 

What are the Indology committee recommendations?

 

Any thoughts welcome,

N. Ganesan

 

 

 

 

Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:26:12 +0100

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Dominik Wujastyk <ucgadkw

Thanks and further thoughts

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Many thanks to the people who have said kind things about INDOLOGY. I can

see that it has performed an interesting and unexpectedly varied function,

with academic, social, and personal aspects (I especially like the idea of

people starting the day with a coffee and INDOLOGY!).

 

I have, in fact, set up a small committee of fellow indologists who have

been kind enough to say they will help me with thinking through and

managing whatever comes next.

 

As about 200 of you already know, I am sending out daily batches of

invitations from the new indology @ list. In about ten days, all

current members of INDOLOGY should have received such an invitation. The

list may end up being very good indeed; if everyone from INDOLOGY

joins, it will have the same membership as INDOLOGY at the moment; new

people can, of course, join. At the moment, I am the sole moderator of

the list, but it is my intention to play almost no role in managing

that forum, and it may be appropriate in the coming months to hand over

the role of moderator to one or more other colleagues. (Please don't

write to me about this! :-) The facilities offered by are

very good; people can upload interesting files, hold polls to vote on

issues, and "chat" (by typing) with each other in real time.

 

It is likely, though not yet completely settled, that I shall start up a

new discussion list with a membership controlled by the committee, and

limited to working academic indologists, i.e., university-level academics

who do this stuff full time. The various issues to do with this list are

currently being thought through by the committee and me, and we will make

some decisions in the coming weeks.

 

Once again, I would like to thank everyone for your responses and

comments. I'm reading everything, and some of the more detailed

suggestions about future possibilities are getting discussed by the

new committee.

 

Best,

--

Dominik Wujastyk

Founder, INDOLOGY list.