From: dpereira@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Welcome to SCI!! - Pompous!
Date: 30 Dec 92 14:22:33 EST
Organization: Univ of Miami IR

In article <aa.725734460@hela.iti.org>, aa@iti.org (Aayush Asthana) writes:
> Welcome to SCI!  As the new year rolls in, soc.culture.indian
> continues to flourish and prove a useful source of information and
> discussion, for those who take interest in Indian culture and
> society.  
> 


Pompous twit!  Who made you arbiter of SCI?  Quit trying to curtail healthy
'desi' appetites for dissent, anarchy, and primal feudalism!  But most of all
you need to....

             G E T   A   L I F E  ! !

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They really should build a church at Ayodhaya....



> Noted below, are some thoughts that I am re-posting for the benefit
> of those who may be curious about the general goings on of this
> public newsgroup.
> 
> Several reasons to be careful, when posting: 
> 
> Demagoguery: 	Although one can write with a certain flourish, it 
> 		is likely that any lucubrated deluge of words can 
> 		flood unsuspecting by-standers and newcomer's 
> 		sensibilities and *overcome* and *prevent* simpler
> 		postings.  Can smack of demagoguery.
> 
> Xenophobia:	There is no real `Keep Out' sign in SCI and there
> 		should not be one for anyone reading/writing
> 		on SCI.  It can be argued that if useful cultural
> 		discussion is prevented through waste of bandwidth
> 		and adroit penmanship, it effectively posts such a 
> 		xenophobic sign especially for those who 'are
> 		foreign/ new' to SCI and hesitate to post.
> 
> Hypocrisy:	By constant use of metaphors/allegories/analogies
> 		which are thinly veiled insults and cheap shots in
> 		reality, something intended personally, but aimed
> 		tangentially, advocates of no-holds-barred free
> 		speech mire themselves constantly in hypocrisy.
> 
> Etiquette:	While free-speech is not in question, what 
> 		becomes highly questionable is the inability of
> 		net-citizens to understand that every word they
> 		write goes into some archive somewhere, is read by
> 		people the world over, and in fact read by one's
> 		colleagues, ex-students, supervisors to-be, 
> 		possible soul-mates, and by one's near and dear ones
> 		which can include the nuclear family as well. 
> 		As they say the pen can be mightier than the sword,
> 		and can be instrumental in shaping reality.
> 
> Your Rights:	Everyone has a right to a clean in-offensive bboard
> 		-- there are several others (alt.flame, for one)
> 		that can accommodate a hasty posting.  Complain to
> 		a system administrator when cheap shots and insults
> 		take away from the `culture' of this group -- there
> 		is nothing wrong with this: it is the system
> 		administrators job to keep his end of the network
> 		clean -- leave 'herding cats' to the proper
> 		authority:  it results only in a rebuke based on the
> 		system administrators reading of the situation; if
> 		you abuse (hypothetically speaking) the system, and 
> 		you know the system administrator personally, then
> 		you may have extra leeway; abusing this privilege 
> 		will obviously cause him/her some added
> 		embarrassment even though you may not know this
> 		right away.
> 
> 		Over the past history of Usenet, this method has
> 		worked best in terms of efficiency.	
> 
> What to Do:	When the concept of free speech becomes a masquerade
> 		it is in your interest to voice your opinion
> 		directly to those who can do something about it. 
> 		And remember it is you who set the etiquette and
> 		standards on the net.  There is no substitute for
> 		tact and responsibility, in this global society. 
> 		
> Just a few thoughts.  Serious comments welcomed.
> 
> [] Regards,   | Industrial    :      _________ ___________ ___________
> Aayush Asthana| Technology    :    /___   ___//___    ___//___    ___/
> aa@iti.org    | Institute     :   ____/  /___    /  /    ____/  /____ 
> (313) 769-4652| Ann Arbor, MI :  /__________/   /__/    /___________/