Santanu Roy wrote:
>
> Dear Debu,
> That was a great milestone! It also reminds many of us of our younger
> days.
> Thanks to you for the beginning and thanks to those who carry the torch
> forward -
> Santanu.
>
Thanks, Santanu.
Last I checked, we're still young (at heart), aren't we:)
I must add that without Jugal's help, the initial start wouldn't have been
possible. He provided me with many of the contacts for the initial list. We
managed the list together for many years. Thanks to Babul Gogoi for his great
work in recent years carrying on this work. Thanks to C'Da's support for his
contribution to keep the list going. [Hope I didn't miss anyone else.]
- Debu
Alpana B. Sarangapani wrote:
>
> Yes, Debu!
>
> That is a great service you all have started and are providing us.
>
> Happy Anniversary to you pioneers.
>
> About reminding our yonger days, Santanu, some of us are at the stage
> that we can't even remember - it's so far behind! :)
Alpana-baidew,
Thanks. It was fun to be able to get this started.
- Debu
Dilip Deka wrote:
> Dear Deepankar,
> I commend you for starting the Luitporia list to connect the Assamese
> community, and > for using your foresight to merge with Jugal Kalita's net in
> course of time. You and > Jugal have done the community a great service.
> I also thank Babul Gogoi for all the work he is doing behind the scene to
> keep
> Assamnet going. Whenever Assamnet stalls, he is the one doing the hand crank
> job.Do > you guys remember "Handel Mora Gari"? :-)
> Dilipda
Dilip-da,
Thanks very much! As I said above, without Jugal's help, this wouldn't
have been possible.
Even back then, it was like 'Handel Mora Gari', perhaps even worse.
Sometimes, mail will get stuck in the send queue on my machine. I'd logon as
root and push it through, restart the machine -- anything to get it going. When
the list got reasonably large, Jugal and I split the list so that each machine
didn't have to send too many messages out (a sort of load balancing); our
pointers back to each other luckily never got into an infinite loop!
Honestly, it got to the point of being too much work for me to run the
'handle Mora gari' by mid 1990s, I felt that it's better to step down and let
others manage it. Remember Tom Sawyer's famous line "Does a boy get a chance to
whitewash a fence every day?" :) I'm glad others stepped up to the plate:)
- Deepankar
Manoj Das wrote:
> Dipankarda
>
> It was a landmark event. Thanks to luitporia, we are an integrated
> community today!
>
> -manoj
Dear Manuj,
Looking back, it was a landmark event. Now, don't pay attention to
whatever C'da says:)
-- Deepankar
Chandan Mahanta wrote:
> Deep:
>
> Hearty congrats and many thanx. for your pioneering effort that
> evolved to the vehicle that, arguably,
> I had been one of the most frequent users of. Without a doubt
> luitporia->assamnet has contributed enormously
> to the entry of Assam and the Assamese into this era of information
> and I hope has contributed something
> tangibly to our collective well being.
>
> cm
> PS: Typing this reply out of my laptop, attached to a Tata Photon,
> sitting on the sunny porch and sipping tea
> at my sister's house at Dibrugarh. :-).
C'da,
Thanks.
Didn't I predict 20 years back you could send messages from anywhere:)
More specifically, I was thinking about you I guess, sipping tea somewhere in
Dibrugarh:) Yes, that's it. [What I forgot to add in my initial message was
that someone will post 'all the time':]
- Deep
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Medhi, Deep
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 12:48 PM
> To: ([email protected])
> Subject: [Assam] 20th Anniversary
>
>
> Today happens to be the 20th anniversary of the erstwhile luitoria
> mailing list that began on my computer aazoli.cstp.umkc.edu. I'm
> posting below the original message. Back then some people were on
> BitNet, which doesn't exist anymore. We could send to bitnet addresses
> by using a gateway. Also, the via address % concept is no longer
> allowed (mostly for security reason).
>
> - DM
>
> --------------------------------
> From [email protected] Thu Nov 15 15:52:41 1990
> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 90 15:44:35 -0600
> From: [email protected] (Deep Medhi)
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: luitporia :: a mailing list
> Status: RO
>
> November 15, 1990
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Welcome to a new mailing list: luitporia !
>
> This mailing list is intended for people
> directly/indirectly/some way related to Assam/North-East In-
> dia. However, anyone else interested is welcome to join this
> list. The idea of this list is to provide a global mailing
> list accessible to EVERYONE from ANYWHERE (almost anywhere)
> by sending message to just one address and to provide an in-
> formal forum to discuss/pass news about Assam, Assamese com-
> munity in North America and Europe (yes at present we have
> one person getting this mail message across the Atlantic in
> UK, see list below) and the like. In future, I hope I'll
> (we'll) find out about someone directly in India who I can
> add to the list (At present, there are several sites in In-
> dia like TIFR, NCST, IITs which can be accessed by e-mail
> from this side of the world).
>
> I have been meaning to set up such a mailing list for
> quite sometime. Now that I have my own workstation "aazoli"
> (couldn't think of a better name!) and that there are a fair
> number (22 as of now) of people with e-mail access, I decid-
> ed it's time to do so.
>
> The Internet e-mail address for this mailing list is:
>
>
> [email protected]
>
>
> and should work from everywhere. People who are on BITNET
> will hopefully figure it out how to send mail to this list
> (using jnet or some other interface).
>
> The initial list has been set up with the names of the
> people with whom I have been communicating (ir)regularly by
> e-mail and the names provided to me by Jugal Kalita of
> Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Thanks, Jugal). I like to apo-
> logize to you for adding your name to the list without ob-
> taining your permission. (Anyone who would NOT like to be on
> this mailing list should send me a message so that I can
> delete his/her name). If you know of anyone else who might
> be interested in being added to this mailing list, please
> let him/her contact me at my address given below.
>
> I would appreciate if you could acknowledge receipt of
> this mail by sending me a message at my e-mail address list-
> ed below (Please send me correction on name/e-mail address).
> Finally, please excuse me if you got multiple copies of this
> message; bear with me as I set up this initial list.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> Happy e-mailing :-)
>
> Deepankar Medhi
> Computer Science Telecommunications Program
> University of Missouri-Kansas City
> Kansas City, Missouri 64110-2499
> (816) 235-2006
> e-mail: Internet: [email protected]
> or [email protected]
> Bitnet: [email protected]
> FAX: (816) 235-5192
>
> =====================
> The following people consist of the initial 'luitporia' mailing
> list:
>
> Mohd Rafiqul Awal, U of Oklahoma, Norman:
> [email protected]
> Mantu Baishya, U of Colorado, Boulder: [email protected]
> Naba Barkakati, Maryland: [email protected]
> Arati Barua, Boeing, Washington: [email protected]
> Pranab Barua, Boeing, Washington: pranab%[email protected]
> Sanjoy Baruah, U of Texas, Austin: [email protected]
> Arup Jyoti Bhuyan, AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL:
> [email protected]
> Apolok Borthakur, Rice U, Houston: [email protected]
> Jugma Bora, Schlumberger, Michigan: bora%[email protected]
> Partha Choudhury, ICL, UK: [email protected]
> Shakuntala Choudhury, AT&T, Bridgewater, NJ:
> [email protected]
> Jugal Kalita, U of Colorado, Colorado Springs:
> [email protected]
> Jukti Kalita, Columbia University, NY:
> phkalita%[email protected]
> Santanu Khataniar, Univ of Texas, Austin:
> [email protected]
> Deepankar Medhi, Univ of Missouri-Kansas City:
> [email protected]
> Satyajit Nath, State U of NY at Buffalo: [email protected]
> Debabrata Sarma, Rutgers, the State U of NJ, Camden:
> [email protected]
> Kanak Sarma, DEC, Mass: [email protected]
> Vijit Sarma, Bellcore, New Jersey:
> vjt%[email protected]
> Satyen Sarmah, Univ of Wyoming:
> sarmah%[email protected]
> Aradhana (Anna) Satin, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ:
> [email protected]
> Probal Tahbildar, ETS, NJ: [email protected]@cunyvm.cuny.edu
>
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