On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@thenilgiris.com>wrote:
> On Saturday 17 July 2010 13:10:10 senthil raja wrote: > > > continuity - IIT has a staff member in charge so we are assured that > the > > > list > > > will continue until he retires - and I am sure he will nominate some > one > > > to continue it. I have seen in other LUGs where some person hosts the > > > list - continuity is dependent on the person. IIT Madras will not fold > > > up. > > > > For your information, the offer did not come from a single > > person.(student/staff). CSMIT offered to host it and CSMIT, in its 30 > years > > of operations, has seen many staff in-charge and student officials retire > > and the events it had supported has only increased and never > discontinued. > > ok - I stand corrected and apologise if your feelings have been hurt > > > > > Also I work in MIT and am aware of the miserable > > > connectivity and bandwidth it has. > > > > FYI, the servers of csmit.org(for that matter, mitindia.edu) are in USA, > > maintained by Dreamhost, one of the best hosting company in the world. > > I was under the impression that it is one of the worst in the world. And I > do > not think a LUG mailing list should be hosted in USA. But anyway, that is > beside the point as there is not going to be an official tamil list. > > > > > Further I do not know whether the people > > > who have offered to host are staff or students. If they are staff, I > have > > > no > > > problem with it as there will be continuity - but if they are students, > > > there > > > is no way they can guarantee continuance after they leave. > > > > Again, its not single person who offered it. The offer was made by the > > chairman on behalf of CSMIT. I'm its chief executive and assure that > offer > > was made with full support of the board of Directors. > > > > > I guess there is no need for separate list for Tamil. One exists already started by Mugunth - the creator of e-kalappai. http://groups.google.com/group/freetamilcomputing Great People are already there discussing about Tamil, FOSS related Tamil. Please join there and contribute. Lets not reinvent the wheel. - balachandar muruganantham எனது தமிழ் பக்கங்கள் - http://www.balachandar.net/pakkangal 950 INR/Pa;1 GB; 10 GB bw/mo; unlimited domains; LAMP support, Ruby on Rails, MySQL; cPanel - http://www.vazhangi.com .in domains @ 99 INR - http://domains.vazhangi.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
