On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Asokan Pichai <paso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am sad to see this. But then, your contribution is independent of any > acknowledgement it receives from ilugc. > > Whether on behalf of or in spite of, please continue the good work. > > Probably it is a good idea for ilugc to decide what it stands for and > articulate the do's and dont's.
Most mailing lists discourage use of the list for promoting or marketing products to the list members and I do agree with them. The most prominent reasons being: a. Reducing spam. b. Objective of the list being sharing information and not to sell products. If I had seen LinExpert's notice in another list, I probably would have posted it here as it benefits and most importantly promotes FOSS. Will I be asked to stop this? If not, just the fact that Baskar is also a member is incidental. FOSS needs a lot of promotion from many quarters to be adopted. Conducting FOSS in colleges has a good cascading effect in promoting FOSS. If ILUGC had resources, it would have certainly done this. In the absence of such resources, some one else doing this as a commercial enterprise must be supported. If some folks have the problem with "on behalf of ILUGC" tagline, maybe they could suggest an alternative tagline. I think it will be in order that Baskar's efforts are endorsed in some form by ILUGC. -- Mohan Sundaram _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
