HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: muttiah@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Re: Closing SCSL
Date: 9 Sep 92 01:05:37 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <5560@arccs1.fed.FRB.GOV> m1pkd00@fed.frb.gov (Prasad K. Dharmasena) writes:
>muttiah@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah) writes:
>
>> In article <5460@arccs1.fed.FRB.GOV> m1pkd00@fed.frb.gov (Prasad K. 
>> Dharmasena) writes:
>
>> >sri@stan.xx.swin.oz.au (SRITHARAN K) writes:
>
>> >> Why there is not much articles now a days? Or else AUS side is onot
>> >> reciving?
>
>> >If my topics are not your cup of tea/coffee/passion fruit, then
>> >start "your own thang," for crying out loud.  Sheeeez!
>
>> Ok, fine.  Let's discuss your article then :-).  Well here, let's see;
>> You work for the Feds.  Yaaaeeeeeekkksss!! Run for cover :-)
>      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>No, I work for *The* Fed, aka Federal Reserve Board.  So, what's the
>big deal?  Just a few weeks ago, someone else accused me of being
>a part of CIA/FBI/MOUSE/CAT/whatever.  Jeeezzz, people, here we are 
>talking about the all-knowing, all powerful, omni-potent Usenet.
>What's more powerful than that?  (Okay, so your toaster doesn't count)
>:-)
>
>prasad

My mistake.  I thought that there was more than one Federal Reserve Board :-).
I never meant to imply that you worked for a secret wing of the CIA or
anything like that:-).
Xref: sparky soc.culture.sri-lanka:984 soc.culture.tamil:2129
From: rahman@ces.cwru.edu (Rahman A. Soomro)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Rain Relief Fund
Date: 9 Sep 1992 19:53:46 GMT
Organization: Computer Engineering and Science, Case Western Reserve University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: easy.ces.cwru.edu


Dear friends,

Recent rains in Pakistan have caused devastating effects on the 
daily life of the Pakistani people. Scores of people have lost there
lives and more than a million have been homeless.

	I appeal to you to help our brothers and sisters in need
and donate some money to help them. Please send your contribution
(tax deductible) with your name and also I request you to collect 
donations from any source -- your colleagues at work, friends, business
associates, customers, persons from any nationalities and backgrouds
to help people in trouble. 

	We are tying you help suffering peoples, who are suffering
from disease and malnutrition.

Please mail your contributions to:

Pakistan Rain Relief Fund
4105 Providence drive
St. Charles, MO 63304
USA


Xref: sparky soc.culture.sri-lanka:978 rec.sport.cricket:14813
From: vnesiah@aludra.usc.edu (Deep Third Man)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka,rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: REye-Witness Rept. SL-AUS 1 st One Day
Date: 10 Sep 1992 08:22:50 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

In article <1992Sep10.023521.21252@news.clarkson.edu> pdy@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (P. D. Yapa,,7980,) writes:
>I WAS THERE - first one D international AUS-SL

Grrrr! Don't rub it in.

>WARNING : This report is biased - I was born in SL

Thats a first for rec.sport.cricket and soc.culture.sri-lanka
;->

The biased bit not the born in SL...

>I managed to get press box seats ( surprise they sold at Rs. 200 ( about 4.5
>US dollars). Great VIEW - match was played at the OVAL

Grrr again!

>It was really worth watching- I flew from Tokyo to watch it

Must be nice.

>
>Poojitha Yapa
>

How would you rate SL fielding?  Lanka used to have a reputation for
being a good fielding side.  We did quite well in that respect a few
months back at the World Cup.  Now it seems that we lost the first
match (test) and a chance to win the second due to poor fielding
(not to mention the spectacular collapse in the 2nd Innings).

- Vasee
From: vnesiah@aludra.usc.edu (Deep Third Man)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Re: GEMINI News Service Wire Reoports
Date: 11 Sep 92 22:34:29 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

In article <9209110927.AA18436@lily.clu.cf.ac.uk> ruvan@clu.cf.ac.uk (Ruvan Weerasinghe) writes:

...deleted..,

>|BTW, if anybody would like to scan the article on to soc.culture.sri-lanka
>|I can fax it to them. I dont have access to a flatbed scanner, just a
>|scanman. :-( I could also post (USPS) it to them if they send me their
>|address.
>|
>
>How about it anybody, I'd like to see it very much. BTW, where is Navaratne
>now? (Now that everyone thinks he's 'on the other side').

A footnote at the end of the report describes GAMINI NAVARATNE as a
"senior Sri Lankan journalist and Editor of Sandesh News Agency in Colombo."

I have never heard of SANDESH NEWS AGHENCY.  Is it an alternative/reaction to
Lankapuwath?  God knows we need it.
 
>
>Ruvan.

Vasee
From: m1pkd00@fed.frb.gov (Prasad K. Dharmasena)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Sri Lankan CDs
Date: 8 Sep 92 22:24:41 GMT
Reply-To: m1pkd00@fed.frb.gov ()
Organization: Federal Reserve Board, Wash, DC


I was looking thru the international CD section at Tower Records
the other day and guess what I saw.  Yes, two, count 'em, TWO CDs
from Sri Lanka.  The first one was, what else, Maha Pirith.  Kind
of weird/funny to see the company name "Jenckin(?) Disco" on a
CD with Maha Pirith.  But then, if you add a little base and mix
it with a fast  beat, and .... possibilities are endless.  :-)
Price: US $14 or so.

The second one was by "Nihal(?) Jayasinghe and the Balladeers."  There
were about 10-12 Sinhalese songs.  The cover had English and French
translations.  It said the printed lyrics are in Sinhalese, English,
and French.  Anyone know who these guys are?
Price: US $18 or so.


prasad
++ Wagner's music is better than it sounds.   -- Mark Twain ++
--
Prasad Dharmasena     Internet: <pkd@fed.FRB.GOV>     UUCP: <uunet!fed!pkd>
From: vnesiah@usc.edu (Deep Third Man)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: GEMINI News Service Wire Reoports
Date: 10 Sep 92 19:51:50 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

An American colleague of mine at work, recently gave me a GEMINI NEWS SERVICE 
wire report that he thought I might find interesting.  It was a report by
Gamini Navaratne on the killing of Kobbekaduwe & Co. It was well written and 
it went beyond the body count style of reporting that has become a trademark
of the Reuters and AP reports that we get on SLnet/LACnet. Gamini Navaratne
was the editor of the now defunct (?) Saturday Review. Navaratne was one of the
few Sinhalese who worked in Jaffna well into the late 1980s. He was not popular
with some people in government (death threats, etc...,) and was tolerated by 
the LTTE for a while. However, the LTTE's tolerance was soon to give way to 
suspicion and eventually paranoia ultimately leading to his being declared
persona non grata in Jaffna. The Indians didnt like him either (surpprise!).

IMHO, Navaratne is one of the few Lankan journalists who have the guts to
say what they want to say. He is also partial to the truth regardless of
who it hurts/helps (IMO, the reason for his unpopularity). 


BTW, if anybody would like to scan the article on to soc.culture.sri-lanka
I can fax it to them. I dont have access to a flatbed scanner, just a
scanman. :-( I could also post (USPS) it to them if they send me their
address.

Attn SLNet Chiefs!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Are there feeds from GEMINI available on Compuserve? If so, could we
substitute GEMINI for AP since AP and Reuters are almost always similar
in content? Just a request. Any comments?


- Vaseeharan
 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
From: thaya@solan.unit.no (Thayanantha Balasundaram)
Subject: Re: Cheran wrote when IPKF is there - Now can't because ANIMALS are there
Keywords: fuck
Organization: Norwegian Institue of Technology
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 17:12:47 GMT

could  you organisatation stop post on the net please thamks.
fug u self control.
From: rs6x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ranjith Ravindiran Suresh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Re: Closing SCSL
Date: 6 Sep 92 10:14:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.8eeYeCy00WBO828GQQ
	<1992Sep4.175437.19204@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
Organization: Senior, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

For the reasons listed below, I don't write anymore in this forum:

1. Some notorious Sinhala netter with Chauvinistic overtones, covertly
and overtlty. They function as the appendage of Sinhala right wing
political machine.

2. The 'country' you associate yourselves is already psychologibally
seperated in people's minds. Geographically, almost. Therefore, this
forum is becoming increasingly irrelevant to me as a Tamil. I find more
common ground in the new Tamil b-boards. Many Sinhalase simply wanted to
follow the path of denial & blame game. I put some of the blame on your
politicians and our ex-politicians who have ruined the country for their
selfish reasons. Over the decades, they preached Tamil bashing and
chauvinism among Sinhalase to get votes while publishing school history
books that are worthy of Hollywood magic. Same goes for some dead Tamil
politicians. Many of you are the product of this, in another words you
are getting what you put in the office for, w/ interest. 

3. Total lack of knowledge of the Tamil history and the Tamils' historic
links they maintained with the Sinhalase over our history. Thank your
monks and the text books. Many of you(Sinhalase) are totally brainwashed
in this regard. It explains your picture of any Jaffna Tamils as
gun-toting Tigers out in the prowl to kill a few Sinhalase. Thank your
ministers for this one. Nobody believes me
when I tell any Sinhalase how hospitable even Velvettithurai was to
Sinhalse over time...till the 80's. Many have worked there, in addition
to the old trade links. Yes, this is the birthplace of Prabakaran & my
home town.

4. Total failure among most Sinhala civilians in comprehending the scale
of death and destruction their armed focres have inflicted in Tamil
areas since 1983. State media & and some nespapers w/ howash journalism
which help the state spread its lies and propoganda more efficiently.
What you have gotten for reading and listening to all this:
bodycounting, war surtax and now rice rationing. Keep the big lie alive.
Which mothers give their sons to keep the big lie going..and going? Not
the big city rich ones. The unfortunate ones(Sinhalase and Tamil) in
village areas!! My heart burns when I think of all the mothers and
fathers who lose their sons and daughters in this war(and sometimes
themselves). The lucky ones come back handicapped, for the rest of their
life.

Enough said. Be glad that the Serbs are outdoing the carnage committed
by your Defense Ministry. Or are they? I predicted a blood bath that is
slowly taking place. The big one is yet to come, unless.....

Suresh

3.
From: m1pkd00@fed.frb.gov (Prasad K. Dharmasena)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Re: Closing SCSL
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:11:50 GMT
Reply-To: m1pkd00@fed.frb.gov ()
Organization: Federal Reserve Board, Wash, DC

rs6x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ranjith Ravindiran Suresh) writes:

> For the reasons listed below, I don't write anymore in this forum:

> 1. Some notorious Sinhala netter with Chauvinistic overtones, covertly

Ever use those KILL files?  They work very nicely for some of us, you know.

> 2. The 'country' you associate yourselves is already psychologibally
                   ^^^           ^^^^^^^^^^
> seperated in people's minds.

I would have argued against it had you said "The 'country' (with which)
WE associate OURSELVES is already ...."  I guess now we know in whose
mind is it really divided.  <sigh>

> 3. Total lack of knowledge of the Tamil history and the Tamils' historic
> links they maintained with the Sinhalase over our history. Thank your
> monks and the text books. Many of you(Sinhalase) are totally brainwashed
> in this regard. It explains your picture of any Jaffna Tamils as
> gun-toting Tigers out in the prowl to kill a few Sinhalase. Thank your
> ministers for this one. Nobody believes me
> when I tell any Sinhalase how hospitable even Velvettithurai was to
> Sinhalse over time...

Thanks for the across the board generalization of Sinhalese.  Now that
you've said "Sinhalese don't know/understand/etc <blah><blah><blah>,"
is there any difference between you and those who say "All the Jaffna
Tamils are <blah><blah><blah>?"  Just because some people are pretty low
in their understanding, you don't have to stoop down to their level too.

If you base your generalization ideals on usenet/internet/e-mails, 
then I urge you to give it a second try.  It is really easy to get
carried away with verbal attacks when someone hides behind a computer 
screen.  So, take everything (including this article) on usenet with a
grain of salt.  Next time try talking to someone face to face, over
coffee or tea.  (I have)


Well, off the soap box.

> Suresh


prasad

--
Prasad Dharmasena      Internet: <pkd@fed.FRB.GOV>     UUCP: <uunet!fed!pkd>
From: vigneswa@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Posting of Poems with Translation.....
Date: 14 Sep 92 11:31:33 GMT

	I select the proper newsgroups when I post something.  I did post
some poems written by Tamil poets in SCTamil with translation. Though the
poems  were kind of relevent to be  posted in SCSLanka and SCIndia, I did
not post them  here since they were mainly  in Tamil.  I thought that the 
mainstream readership  would not be interested.  However, after observing 
the distorted version of my posting, I decided to post them in these news-
groups too.  Most of the  readers know the  credibility of the poster who
partially reproduced my posting.  In anycase, I have to present my case I
believe.  If you are not interested in these, I do apologize.


Vicky:
UMass, Sep 14
From: gulati@access.digex.com (Raj K. Gulati)
Subject: New E-Mail Address/Last Posting (Anju at AMS, Inc.)
Reply-To: gulati@access.digex.com
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt MD USA
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 05:54:23 GMT

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Xref: sparky soc.culture.sri-lanka:982 soc.culture.tamil:2121
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Date: 12 Sep 92 12:41 PDT
Subject: RIGHTS: U.S. Writers' group honors
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1474800006:000:2677
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Sep 12 12:41:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: RIGHTS: U.S. Writers' group honors 

/* Written 12:16 am  Sep 12, 1992 by newsdesk in
cdp:ips.englibrary */ Copyright Inter Press Service 1992, all
rights reserved.  Permission to re- print within 7 days of
original date only with permission from 'newsdesk'.

Title: RIGHTS: U.S. Writers' group honors abducted Sri Lanka poet


new york, sep 9 (ips/gin) -- thiagarajah selvanaithy, a tamil poet
and actress abducted by rebel forces in sri lanka over a year ago,
was honored this week by the pen american center, the u.s.
affiliate of the international writers' association.

selvanaithy was named as pen's 1992 freedom-to-write award
recipient. the award is given annually to two writers who have
shown courage in exercising and defending freedom of expression,
and have suffered as a result.

selvanaithy, 28, was reportedly abducted by members of the tamil
tigers of tamil eelam (ltte) on aug 30 last year. there has since
been no news concerning her health or whereabouts.

selvanaithy's abduction occurred the day before she was due to
appear in a play about the role of women in the palestinian
intifada, according to a pen report. pen contends she was targeted
because of her outspoken criticism of the tigers and their methods
of dealing with dissent on the jaffna peninsula.

a third-year theatre and dramatic arts student at the university
of jaffna, selvanaithy was also a published poet, an actress and
an advocate for women's issues. in 1985, she was one of the
founders of a feminist magazine called ''tholi''.

in 1989, she helped to launch ''poorani'', a women's center in
jaffna which aimed to help female victims of the violent conflict
between the tamil minority, represented by the tamil tigers, and
the ruling national party based in the sinhalese majority.

the ''censorship news'', a british-based publication,  reported in
its aug. 30 issue that newspapers and journals are strictly
controlled in the ltte-dominated north and east sri lanka, and
that many tamils who have criticized or opposed the tigers'
tactics have been detained or executed.

the report also said that the detention of more than 20,000
civilians in the ltte-controlled areas has been documented.

''it is time for the tigers to demonstrate that peaceful, well-
intentioned criticism from within their own community is not only
tolerated, but encouraged'', pen's edmund keeley stated, calling
for selvanaithy's release.

earlier this year, pen named haitian journalist jean mario paul as
the first freedom-to-write award recipient for 1992. he was
released from prison two weeks later, the writers' group reported.
(end/ips/hr/js/wr)
From: invite@asun44.matups.fr
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: (none)
Date: 4 Sep 1992 16:42:55 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

To all users of soc.culture.sri-lanka

_______________________________________________________________________________

                                THIS IS A FLAME
______________________________________________________________________________

 Dear

[ ] asshole     [ ] fag         [X] ignorant snot       [ ] prick
[x] nerd        [ ] Elvis       [ ] lonely masturbator  [x] computer geek
[x] retard      [ ] sycophant   [ ] Samuel Stoddard     [ ] offline reader

 You are being flamed because

        [ ] you continued a boring useless stupid thread
        [ ] you repeatedly posted to the same thread that you just posted to
        [ ] you posted a "test"
        [ ] you used vi and left a whole bunch of editing garbage on the screen
        [X]  you didn't post an article within the past month.
        [ ] you posted a request for an article which was posted three times
                in the past week
        [ ] you claimed to have the original GGBJ
        [ ] you posted some sort of religious crap that doesn't belong in this
                group
        [ ] you posted an article that was not funny, unoriginal and very
                boring
        [ ] your mother dresses you funny
        [ ] you reposted a useless message yet AGAIN

 To recant, you must

        [x] actually post a humorous article
        [ ] give up all your worldly possessions and become a monk
        [ ] hang yourself by the big toe for 72 hours
        [x] abstain from sex for a month (shouldn't be too hard for you)
        [x] shave your head, paint a target on it, and go to Iraq
        [ ] give your MP (Congressman in U.S.A., I guess) a donation of three
                hemp plants to decorate his office
        [ ] become politically correct and demand that manholes be renamed to
                peroffspringopenings
        [ ] cut your balls (or breasts, if you're a woman) off
        [ ] send $1000 to ZOOiD for each and every tag line you've used

 Thank you for the time you have taken to read this, and please detest from
the offending behaviour that led to this flame.

_____________________________________________________________________________

                                END FLAME

    Thanks to gaea@zooid.guild.org  and the original poster of this  the flame-form.
From: ruvan@clu.cf.ac.uk (Ruvan Weerasinghe)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka
Subject: Re: GEMINI News Service Wire Reoports
Date: 11 Sep 92 09:27:54 GMT
Organization: Computational Linguistics Unit, U of Wales - Cardiff, Cardiff, UK
X-Mailer: Cardiff Computing Maths PP Mail Open News Gateway

In article <lav9qmINNif5@aludra.usc.edu> vnesiah@usc.edu (Deep Third Man) writes:
|
|IMHO, Navaratne is one of the few Lankan journalists who have the guts to
|say what they want to say. He is also partial to the truth regardless of
|who it hurts/helps (IMO, the reason for his unpopularity). 
|

Ditto. IMO too.                        ^^^^  that should be impartial?

|
|BTW, if anybody would like to scan the article on to soc.culture.sri-lanka
|I can fax it to them. I dont have access to a flatbed scanner, just a
|scanman. :-( I could also post (USPS) it to them if they send me their
|address.
|

How about it anybody, I'd like to see it very much. BTW, where is Navaratne
now? (Now that everyone thinks he's 'on the other side').

|Attn SLNet Chiefs!
|^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|
|Are there feeds from GEMINI available on Compuserve? If so, could we
|substitute GEMINI for AP since AP and Reuters are almost always similar
|in content? Just a request. Any comments?
|

Could be the case. I think there is a point here. (Not to imply that you
folk aren't doing a good job already). :-)

Ruvan.
From: svedja@lysator.liu.se (Dejan Ilic)
Subject: Re: B-H is NO place for IWN
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:00:21 GMT

mmilicevic@spike.psc.scarolina.edu writes:

>Ridha, sorry but you don't understand the issue. I'm from Sarajevo where I
>lived for 28 beautiful years, my family is there, all my friends are there...

>You just don't understand.

>MLADEN

I'm from Pozarevac (in Serbia) where i lived the past 10 years (best days of my life) and i have my family there (maybe days from a war depending what US and UN decide to do). I came to sweden to continue my education and i didn't want to fight in a stupid war. I have friends on all sides of the front (or at least i had).



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