From: ramap@spatial.com (Rama K Pidaparti)
Subject: Re: 2nd RFD:  soc.culture.indian.american
Organization: Spatial Technology, Inc.
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1992 18:34:23 GMT

In article <1992Apr2.182302.8518@nas.nasa.gov> raghavan@wk21.nas.nasa.gov (Venkatraman Raghavan) writes:

>In article <1992Apr2.001613.6087@spatial.com> ramap@spatial.com (Rama K Pidaparti) writes:

>>In article <1992Apr1.062638.9612@uunet.uu.net> jlm@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu (Jose Martinez) writes:

>>>RFD UPDATE - this is the final update
>>> Since the name that was chosen by most of the people who
>>>participated in the poll was Soc.Culture.Indian.American
>>>that is the one that will appear in the Call For Votes (CFV).
>>
>>I did not vote the first time during the CFV for scia because I thought it was 
>>joke.  Why did I think it was joke?  Alok Vijay( Oh boy was he a Vijayeeebhava)
>>being the guy who was giving the call:-),  couldn't think otherwise.
>>
>>My 2 cents as to why SAY NO to scia.
>
>My reason for SCIA (or something similar) is that SCI is a 800 pound gorilla 
>and may be it is time to permit subgroups under SCI hierarchy.
>
>>
>>There are many Non-Resident-Indians in many countries and US just happens to be
>>one of them.  So the formation of SCIA can create more S.C.I.* groups for
>>Indians from other countries and to handle so many groups belonging to Indians
>>would be a waste of MONEY for somebody.  As for somebody willing time waste
>>their time with ALL these news groups belonging to Indians, it is their
>>funeral.

>>Instead of creating S.C.I.American I guess it would be a better idea to create
>>a news group called S.C.N.R.I( N.R.I being Non Resident Indians) to cover all
>>the NRIs still better Indians raised outside India(whether they are born in
>>India or elsewhere).  The creation of this news group(if it is really
>>inevitable to have one in the first place) can for sure prevent the creation
>>of S.C.I.* where * can be any thing other than American(assuming that this
>>is going to be created as of now).
>>

>The name confusion will always be there if the words 'american'
>and 'indian' are used together. But this happens only with
>new users. 

I am not ptoposing S.C.N.R.I to avoid 'name confusion'.

Looks you me wrong.

I am suggesting that to avoid the creation of a host S.C.I.* news groups where
* can have: Canadian, British, S.African, Gulf etc., etc.,

I hope I made it clear.

I for one would feel sick to see a host of S.C.I news groups when others are
able to get by with one.

The main problem with sci is the high volume.  Well what do you expect, when
a country has 800 Million people, where many people with some education can
communnicate in English fairly well and a majority of them *try* to come to US
and suddnely stumble on the USENET, 'being a FREE enterprise', feel FREE to
write on it.

***

Main point:

As long as Alok likes can't be prevented from posting to usenest, SICA WILL NOT
BE ANY DIFFERENT FROM SCI.

***

>We are in an situation where we are 'discussing' a newsgroup which
>is already there, at least in some/many sites.  Please let the people
>at soc.culture.indian.american know of your opinions by cross-posting.


I had a blank space between the names of news groups, and that created a 
problem incross posting.  So I posted seperately.

I am cross posting this time.

>Sincerely,
>raghavan

Regards

Ramakrishna.
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