From: charath@cs.tamu.edu (R. Charath Ram)
Subject: Re: A THREAT from a boneless tiger in the net
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 19:30:28 GMT

In article <BtAKvK.34M@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> mvishnu@morse.uwaterloo.ca (m vishnu) writes:
>In article <Bt9LA1.KLq@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jsg9939@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (J. Sreedhar ) writes:
>>thiyagarajan@mims.enet.dec.com (RT) writes:
>>
>>
>>>I received the following threat from one spineless tiger in the net who does
>>>not have guts to post his view in the net and sent me e-mail
>>
>>
>>>==============================================================================
>>
>>>From:   "LTTE@surya.waterloo.edu" 19-AUG-1992 12:07:34.52
>>
>>>LTTE will kill all the Brahmins.
>>
>>
<< STUFF DELETED >>
>
>Dear Netters:
>
>The followers of Brahmanism has a very pecular method of suppressing 
>their opponents.  Some examples in history are:
>
>(1)  ...Many women were involved in the struggle, including Periyar's
>     wife. Some of the Bramin men went naked in front of them to shame 
>     them... 
>
>(2)  A huge Vedic ritual was performed by the Rajah (of Travancore) to
>     destroy Periyar and his following but the Rajah soon died instead. 
>
>     (Both these are taken from the Charles Ryerson's book)
>
>What is unfortunate is that, present generation of Brahmanism followers
>are also doing the same cheap dirty tricks to suppress criticism.  One 
>such incident is the cooking up of an 'e-mail threat' apparantly
>send from the University of Waterloo 'surya' machine with an account
>name of 'LTTE'.  These followers of Brahmanism are desparately trying
>to bring in the LTTE issue in the current discussion of EVR/Brahmanism/
>Sati/Varna/etc.  I tried to finger this machine and found that there 
>are no accounts with the name 'LTTE'.  The system administrator of 'surya'
>is on vacation.  However, I found out that 'surya' and 'watmath' are the 
>only two machines on campus with 'anonymous' logon facilty.  Also,
>if one notes the header of the e-mail, it has line
>
>% Received: from wam.umd.edu by surya.waterloo.edu.bedinet (4.1/SMI-4.1)id AA29998; Wed, 19 Aug 92 12:05:15 EST
>
>The e-mail apparently originated at the site 'wam.umd.edu' and sent
>through the 'surya.waterloo.edu'.
>
>This is a kind request to the the Brahmanism followers.  If you can 
>debate in a healthy fashion in the net then do so.  Please do not resort
>to cheap and dirty tricks just as some of your ancestors did.
>
>I will let the netters decide on the truth of this e-mail.
>
>Meenan Vishnu

Hello Everyone

I've been reading many messages with a similar strain over the last couple of
days on SCT. I do not know how Mr. Vishnu decides that the above message was
forwarded by a so-called "Brahmanism follower". I take it, Mr. Vishnu, that you
mean a Brahmin by the above reference. I find it rather amusing that someone
would post something on the net with an inference which cannot be supported.
What makes you so sure that the poster of the threat was a Brahmin (or
Brahmanism follower, if you will)? Do you have absolutely anything that can
back this up? If you do, why don't you come forward and tell us all about it.

Please note : I'm not saying that the threat was posted by an LTTE supporter.
All I'm saying is that it is unfair to everyone concerned if such insinuations
are made by a person, without any perceivable shred of evidence. For all you
know, Mr. Vishnu, the threat could have been posted by some prankster, who is
probably watching the discussion with uncontrolled glee at this very moment. So
in future, please desist from making such accusations unless you have evidence
that supports them, and if you have the backing, please post the supporting
facts also.

I know that Brahmin bashing is now a favourite theme on SCT, but please, this
is really taking things too far.

- Charath Ram
  charath@cs.tamu.edu


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