HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: srini@ireq-num.hydro.qc.ca
Newsgroups: alt.culture.kerala
Subject: Sanskrit as a computer language: Humor
Date: 14 Sep 92 14:05:08 GMT
Reply-To: srini@ireq-num.hydro.qc.ca (K.Srinivasan)
Organization: IREQ, Hydro-Quebec, QC, Canada
Originator: srini@acr

>In article <BuA34C.MzJ@acsu.buffalo.edu> C999S2W4@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>
>   Research has proved that Sanskrit is the best language for use in
>Computers. This will give a great boost to the Indian Contribution in the
>field of Computer Programming.

I thought, it would be proper to enlighten those people, who have no idea,
what a computer language is. Experts! just ignore this article.

A computer language is for human beings to communicate to electronic
machines.

The simple computer language to 'talk' to micro computers, that everyone
today is familiar is BASIC, (read as 'bEsik). It is believed that it is the
Arabic pronunciation of 'pEsi', which means 'talk' in Tamil.
[Note: It is common practice in Arabic to pronounce 'pa' as 'ba']

A recently born computer language, but growing very fast in popularity,
probably already the most popular today is 'C' language. (read as
'see' language). It is supposed to have been derived from the Tamil word
'seevu' (to peel skins). The anology is taken from 'peeling an onion'.
The problem in question is peeled or decomposed into smaller and smaller
sub-problems, until a core which is simple to program is reached.

The U.S. Army found all these computer languages too 'shaky' to
develop applications that would stand violent attacks. So they developed
a language called 'ADA' (pronounced as 'aadaa'). It is believed it is
derived from the Tamil word 'aadaa (not shaky) mozhi (language)'.

I am told FORTRAN and COBOL had their roots in Sanskrit and it is some
of those enthusiasts, who are trying to revive those dying languages,
by 'proving' that Sanskrit is the superior language for use in computers.

That raises the vital question. Will Sanskrit be UNIX compatible?
I know there are some netters, who would reject anything that is not
UNIX compatible.

K. Srinivasan  srini@ireq-num.hydro.qc.ca
From: nizar@cis.ksu.edu (Abdulnizar M Abubaker)
Newsgroups: alt.culture.kerala
Subject: kerala
Date: 14 Sep 1992 20:01:58 GMT
Organization: Kansas State University, Dept of Computing & Information Sciences
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: altair.cis.ksu.edu
Originator: nizar@cis.ksu.edu


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From: DXS23@psuvm.psu.edu (Deepak Srivastava)
Newsgroups: alt.culture.kerala,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: Sanskrit and the Unity of India
Date: 9 Sep 92 18:15:03 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

In article <1992Sep8.191502.8477@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>,
mchundat@kittyhawk.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mathai Chundattu) says:
>
>        The unity of India is strongly connected with the availability
>of a common national language. Even though Hindi was imposed upon all
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>the states to be adopted as the national language the survival of this
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>language in this position is doubtful. Considering the history of India
>I would suggest that Sanskrit deserves a true consideration to be the
>national language.
>

Why do every demand of a new national language start with a statement
about Hindi ? Hindi was/is never imposed as a national language because
as such there is no national language. In the two language formula Hindi
is the language of official communications and English is the support
language in the same category. Other than this there are 18 officially
recognized languages which enjoy some previleges as compared to many
other officially unrecognized languages. Now everyone is happy with this
arrangement. Where is the need to recognize one language as the national
language ?

regards..         Deepak
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From: Veeramany.Sthanumurthy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Veeramany Sthanumurthy)
Newsgroups: alt.culture.tamil,soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: thugLak aLikkum "puratchi sashti kavacham"
Date: 8 Sep 92 17:58:05 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <1992Sep6.165320.3830@newstand.syr.edu> meena@top.cis.syr.edu (Meenakshi Arunachalam) writes:
>I still cannot believe that "Thuglak" used "Kanthar sashti kavasam"
>to write a mock article. Is it just me or is there anyone else 
>who was offended by this? Only in India, can you get away with
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You've got to be kidding. This is in keeping with all the other
hyperbole in Tamil. I was reminded of the Indian calling in to
a radio talk show in Washington, DC commenting: " ... being from
India, I am used to a women ruling a country of 100's of millions .."

Keep on dreaming.

My opinions about the other posters' requests to cease and
desist from this posting or that is similar. At least, this
poster has not invoked the Khomeini in this regard.

Sthan.
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Newsgroups: alt.culture.tamil,soc.culture.indian.american,soc.culture.indian.telegu,soc.culture.indian,alt.culture.us.asian-indian,soc.culture.asian.american
From: gulati@access.digex.com (Raj K. Gulati)
Subject: ASIAN MATRIMONIAL SERVICES, INC.
Reply-To: gulati@access.digex.com
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt MD USA
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 23:00:12 GMT

Other ref: see discussions in soc.culture.indian

Dear all:       

  There was quite some response to my recent posting entitled SUMMARY:
  looking for ways to meet. Many of you asked for A.M.S.'s phone number,
  so I decided to post the information to the net (I've now got it).
  I'll try and respond to everyone's individual email soon. Those of
  you who supplied your name and address, I've passed it along.

  Feel free to add names and numbers of other similar services, and
  to discuss any other topics relating to this new wave of indian
  relationship building.

  ASIAN MATRIMONIAL SERVICES, INC. is a legit company newly registered
  in the state of Maryland. The president's name is Anju. The contact
  information is:

       Attn: Anju, President
       ASIAN MATRIMONIAL SERVICES, INC.
       P.O. Box 2485
       Gaithersburg, MD 20886-2485, USA
       (301)-216-2188

  To rephrase from my earlier posting (with some additions) [But don't
  take my word for it, since I am neither their agent or a client.
  Call them for official details.]:

  Anju has told me that A.M.S. "caters to the relationship search needs
  of the Asian community." Persons pursuing ALL types of relationships
  are encouraged to subscribe (including: dating, just friendship, or
  arranged marraige). Parents and Guardians are catered to, as well as
  the large indian student populace in the U.S. and abroad. Women are
  particularly encouraged to subscribe.

  The service is "confidential, personalized, and reliable".

  A.M.S's advertising focus for their services include newspapers,
  temple events and newsletters, flyers distributed at major events,
  contacting university indian student associations, and good old
  fashioned word of mouth. At present, A.M.S is focusing on the
  U.S. community but in the next few months they hope to be expanding
  to the European and Asian publication classifieds, I'm told. While
  A.M.S's is initially focussed on the Indian community, their goal
  is to eventually address the needs of the Asian community at large.

  The service is not free, but it only costs $4/month to be
  registered. The information packet I received is quite
  informative and helpful. Besides, Anju is very nice to talk
  to. She said that a introductory special covers the new
  subscriber till December of 1993, that's a few months extra
  for free.

  I'd be happy to offer additional comments, if anyone sends me direct
  e-mail. I try and refrain from net-flames.

  Regards,
  
-- 
Raj K. Gulati, Unix Technology, M/S MC07B, G.E. INFORMATION SERVICES, 401 North
 Washington Street, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. [QK: RAJ@GEIS] 1-(301)-340-5204
  CompuServe: 70323,1430  Internet: gulati@access.digex.com, GEnie: R.GULATI
  *** This message is submitted with no intended representation of G.E. ***
Xref: sparky alt.culture.tamil:1277 soc.culture.tamil:2087
From: sp2@cec1.wustl.edu (Sundara Pandian)
Newsgroups: alt.culture.tamil,soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: thugLak aLikkum "puratchi sashti kavacham"
Date: 10 Sep 92 05:00:09 GMT
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Mo.

In article <1992Sep9.101033.200@newstand.syr.edu> meena@top.cis.syr.edu (Meenakshi Arunachalam) writes:
>In article <1992Sep8.175805.26933@samba.oit.unc.edu> Veeramany.Sthanumurthy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Veeramany Sthanumurthy) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep6.165320.3830@newstand.syr.edu> meena@top.cis.syr.edu (Meenakshi Arunachalam) writes:
>
>>poster has not invoked the Khomeini in this regard.
>>
>                                  Some reader pointed  
>out to me that in the very next issue of thughlak, there
>were many readers who wrote letters objecting to that
>article.

      Thuglak has carried satires of this sort before.
 Many years ago, Cho wrote a series of articles called
 `M.G.R. Gita' in the style of Bhagavad Gita but in
 Tamil with a A.D.M.K. `thoNdan' in the role of Arjuna
 and M.G.R. as Krishna. This Gita starts with the ThoNdan
 at a puzzled state confused by the doctrine of Anna-
 the Annaism and pleads to M.G.R. to elucidate Annaaism.
 This is the yoga titled `a.thi.mu.ka. thondan visaadha
 yogam' and M.G.R. gives a long sermon on Annaaism 
 thenafterwards. Like renunciation in Bhagavad Gita,
 M.G.R. advises his thondan to give up his sanity, integrity
 and common-sense when he joins in the A.D.M.K. party.
 He also talks about how his `rasigar manRam' gets into
 a `A.D.M.K. vattam' etc. This series did not get any flames
 and actually Cho got a lot of letters praising the satire.
 I see some double-standard from Thuglak readers..

> There you go! If you want your magazine to 
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>be read by people, then you have be reasonably sensitive
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>to your readers' sensitivity!!! That's what I believe in!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

     I see some `Annaaism' here...
>
>>Sthan.
>
>-meena

 SP
 
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From: rk@nms.hls.com (S Ramakrishnan)
Newsgroups: alt.culture.tamil,soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: thugLak aLikkum "puratchi sashti kavacham"
Date: 9 Sep 92 00:09:48 GMT
Followup-To: alt.culture.tamil
Distribution: na
Organization: Hughes LAN Systems Inc., Mountain View, Ca
Originator: ramakris@csgrad.cs.vt.edu

In article <1992Sep8.175805.26933@samba.oit.unc.edu> Veeramany.Sthanumurthy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Veeramany Sthanumurthy) writes:
  >In article <1992Sep6.165320.3830@newstand.syr.edu> meena@top.cis.syr.edu (Meenakshi Arunachalam) writes:
   >>I still cannot believe that "Thuglak" used "Kanthar sashti kavasam"
   >>to write a mock article. Is it just me or is there anyone else 
   >>who was offended by this? Only in India, can you get away with

 >You've got to be kidding. This is in keeping with all the other
 >hyperbole in Tamil. I was reminded of the Indian calling in to
 >a radio talk show in Washington, DC commenting: " ... being from
 >India, I am used to a women ruling a country of 100's of millions .."

Talk of tangential take-off (now what's that ?). One writes an article expressing
displeasure at people mocking her religious practices. This Enlightened One
follows up with comments on two extraneous words from her posting. 

Even if one were to delete the words "Only in India..." the the theme of the 
original post would still stand. That is, she found the parody offending. So 
did probably many others. What do you have to say to that ?

God, the only sane grp seems to be comp.windows.x where we can have args
without non sequitirs.

  >Sthan.

---
S Ramakrishnan, Hughes LAN Systems Inc., Mountain View, Ca
Newsgroups: alt.culture.tamil,soc.culture.tamil
From: akn8257@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Re: thugLak aLikkum "puratchi sashti kavacham"
Reply-To: akn8257@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 22:29:36 GMT

In article <1992Sep6.165320.3830@newstand.syr.edu>, meena@top.cis.syr.edu (Meenakshi Arunachalam) writes:
>I still cannot believe that "Thuglak" used "Kanthar sashti kavasam"
>to write a mock article. Is it just me or is there anyone else 
>who was offended by this? Only in India, can you get away with
>playing with someone's religious prayer. I don't care about what
>is being implied, but this is insensitive, bad journalism.
>
>- meena [an ex "maanava nirubar" from vikatan]
>
>ps: Prabukumar, you could have chosen a better piece to 
>    try out Adami script!

Are you in any way related to Ayathulla Khomeini?

- Arun

Newsgroups: alt.culture.tamil,soc.culture.tamil,soc.culture.indian
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Newsgroups: alt.culture.tamil,soc.culture.tamil
From: meena@top.cis.syr.edu (Meenakshi Arunachalam)
Subject: Re: thugLak aLikkum "puratchi sashti kavacham"
Organization: Syracuse University, CIS Dept.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 13:17:29 EDT

In article <1992Sep10.050009.6805@wuecl.wustl.edu> sp2@cec1.wustl.edu (Sundara Pandian) writes:
>In article <1992Sep9.101033.200@newstand.syr.edu> meena@top.cis.syr.edu (Meenakshi Arunachalam) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep8.175805.26933@samba.oit.unc.edu> Veeramany.Sthanumurthy@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Veeramany Sthanumurthy) writes:
>>>In article <1992Sep6.165320.3830@newstand.syr.edu> meena@top.cis.syr.edu (Meenakshi Arunachalam) writes:
>>
>>>poster has not invoked the Khomeini in this regard.
>>>

Btw, since someone else was questioning my family tree, I would
like to clarify that I am no way related to khomeni or his likes! 

[rest of the stuff deleted]

>
>> There you go! If you want your magazine to 
>               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>be read by people, then you have be reasonably sensitive
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>to your readers' sensitivity!!! That's what I believe in!
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>     I see some `Annaaism' here...

uhmm....... Annaism?!! 
I don't see any Annaism here!
My association with Anna must have come from living in Anna Nagar :-)

>>
>>>Sthan.
>>
>>-meena
>
> SP
> 
-meena 
Newsgroups: alt.culture.kerela,alt.culture.tamil,alt.culture.karnataka,alt.culture.us.asian-indian
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 05:56:34 GMT

Dear Friends,

   Please note that due to popular demand, Anju at ASIAN MATRIMONIAL
   SERVICES, INC. has received many calls recommending that she obtain
   an internet account to facilitate communication with the Asian
   net-populace.

   Through various discussions with Anju, I have assumed the role of
   V.P. at the company, and would like to establish the use of my
   certain network addresses for use by the company. This message is
   therefore to be treated as an announcement of these facilities.

   Please use these network access methods as you would a phone or
   by postal mail. This is a legitimate business.

   Henceforth, ASIAN MATRIMONIAL SERVICES, INC. can be reached by
   email at gulati@access.digex.com. The particulars therefore are:

        Company Name/Nature:  ASIAN MATRIMONIAL SERVICES, INC.
                              Registered in the State of Maryland
                              Closed-corporation venture.
        
        Mailing Address:  Attn Anju Gulati, President
                          ASIAN MATRIMONIAL SERVICES, INC.
                          P.O. Box 2485
                          Gaithersburg, MD 20886-2485

        Phone info:       1-301-216-2188

        Email Addresses:  internet: gulati@access.digex.com
                          compuserve: 70323,1430
                          genie: R.GULATI

        Business Activity:  "cater to the relationship search
                             needs of the Asian community,
                             including friendship, dating,
                             and marriage"

        Methods:  newspaper ads, temple letters, flyers, store
                  flyers, word-of-mouth, mass-mailings, etc.

   The company plans to have a monthly newsletter soon, to be distributed
   directly to clients. A synopsis of news events from that newsletter
   will be made available on the Internet, as a community service. Beyond
   this, due to COMMERCIAL POSTING RESTRICTIONS on Internet, the account
   gulati@access.digex.com will only be used for direct-mail communication
   when used by this company.

   If anyone maintains FAQ listings, or other summaries, ASIAN MATRIMONIAL
   SERVICES will be delighted to be a part of it.

Regards,

   ANJU V. GULATI,  President & Founder
   RAJ K. GULATI,   Vice-President


-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.culture.tamil,soc.culture.tamil
From: thaya@solan.unit.no (Deep Third Sand)
Subject: thugLak aLikkum "puratchi sashti kavacham"
Followup-To: plot
Keywords: piece
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 12:36:29 GMT

Anna Nagar = kOtthai nagar Unread news in rec.music.indian.misc                       1 article  +   24 old
Xref: sparky alt.culture.tamil:1271 soc.culture.tamil:1977
From: meena@top.cis.syr.edu (Meenakshi Arunachalam)
Newsgroups: alt.culture.tamil,soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: thugLak aLikkum "puratchi sashti kavacham"
Date: 6 Sep 92 20:53:20 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, CIS Dept.

I still cannot believe that "Thuglak" used "Kanthar sashti kavasam"
to write a mock article. Is it just me or is there anyone else 
who was offended by this? Only in India, can you get away with
playing with someone's religious prayer. I don't care about what
is being implied, but this is insensitive, bad journalism.

- meena [an ex "maanava nirubar" from vikatan]

ps: Prabukumar, you could have chosen a better piece to 
    try out Adami script!
From: bharathi@acsu.buffalo.edu (Chandra Shekara Bharathi)
Newsgroups: alt.culture.karnataka
Subject: Please Read this before posting LOOKING FORs
Keywords: looking for, searching for
Date: 15 Sep 92 17:50:29 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Comp Sci

In article <1992Sep15.152605.8908@zip.eecs.umich.edu> katkere@engin.umich.edu writes:
>Ignore if you are familiar with these methods.

[ ... ]

One more piece of info.  There exists a utility called
Netfind.

People may be aware of this..  but in any case, the foll. info
wd probably serve to decrease postings of this genre.

NETFIND - what is it?

[ The foll. is from the README file of Netfind ]

Netfind is a research prototype that provides a simple Internet "white
pages" directory facility.  It runs on SunOS 4.0 or more recent systems
that are connected to the Internet (however, you can run netfind on one
server at your site, and let the others use netfind on that server).
Given the name of a person on the Internet and a rough description of
where the person works, the tool attempts to locate telephone and
electronic mailbox information about the person.

----

HOW TO ACCESS NETFIND:

telnet to bruno.cs.colorado.edu
login as netfind                // NO passwords are needed.

A second option u may want to consider:

Get ur sys admn to INSTALL it on your system [ as I did :-) ] ..
avoids overloading colorado.  If the people there get sufficiently
bugged, the utility may perhaps get discontinued.

The authors can be reached as follows:

                        Mike Schwartz
                        Dept. of Computer Science
                        U. Colorado - Boulder
                        schwartz@cs.colorado.edu

                        Panos Tsirigotis
                        Dept. of Computer Science
                        U. Colorado - Boulder
                        panos@cs.colorado.edu


If u need more info, PLEASE write to the authors - not me!
[They have an interesting paper or two on this topic.]


vandanegaLu

Chandru
From: bharathi@acsu.buffalo.edu (Chandra Shekara Bharathi)
Newsgroups: alt.culture.karnataka
Subject: Re: Deterioration of Kannada movies, songs ...etc
Date: 15 Sep 92 18:21:39 GMT
Distribution: alt.culture.karnataka
Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Comp Sci

In article <92Sep14.181947.17319@acs.ucalgary.ca> rao@acs.ucalgary.ca (Harish Rao) writes:
>Deterioration of Kannada Films, songs....etc
 
[ ... ]

>The hamsa leka's,Ravichandran's, Raghvendra Rajkumar's ....just ain't got
>it....
>
>Yenanthira???
>
>Harish.

enu heLodu?  I feel it is just a reflection of the soceity in 
general.  no such masala/cheap dialogues/equally cheap dance 
sequences ( the leave nothing to the imagination .. do they? ) etc.
in a movie is a sure way to ensure that the movie
bombs in the theatres.   
Parhaps there really isn't anyone to direct movies of the ilk of
naagara haavu, upasane, edakallu guddaDa mele etc... 

I guess the movies produced have a lot to
do with their proximity to reality.  

The other successful genre of movies is the "haasyaDa chitragaLu"
Did u see `ganeshana maduve', `gowri ganesha' ..  - both of 
which were exteremely successful, yet distinguished themselves
in not being vulgar/crass.  Reason why these click : They are
portraits of reality, so much so that a person who watches the
movie may be able to identify with it very closely.. eg. the poor
( yet smart! ) tenant, the supercilious landlord ...  

Any one care to do some more detailed analyses?

au revoir, ..or as we say baroNave !

Chandru
Newsgroups: alt.culture.karnataka