Dear all, I admit to having committed a fairly grave $subject. Apologies to the group for that. However, there has to be a limit to the level of bullshit and misbehavior, especially when it comes directly from the list admin.
I'll explain that in a moment. My wife Stephanie was added to the mailing list without asking her, even once, if she wanted to be mailing list. No matter how great the effort and how relevant my wife's work with KDE may be, it does not justify spamming. No. there was no private email, no invite to join, no nothing! One fine day, she starts receiving these mails from wfs-india m/l. As the founder member of Indo-CAUCE (antispam organisation against UBE and UCE), I know enough how to take down such offenders. Further IT Act w/Amendment 2008 gives enough legal teeth to do that. However, we both decided not to take any such offensive stand, even though we had a fair idea who had added her. The logic was simple, innocent others would unnecessarily suffer for the misbehavior of someone who should have know better. Since then several of the founders have informed me in private that it was Mani who did this mischief. For all the loud proclamation of being against bigotry, the non-technical discussions on this list have have had oodles of that. The current event on he website states that there was 'various hilarious discussions' and 'coordination issues'. If disagreement in a public debate is to be termed as 'hilarious', with the assumed endorsement of the founders, i do not know what do people mean when they say they are against 'denigration' and 'bigotry'. Lets take another case in point. In my earlier draft of the guidelines I had written - <quote> Bigotry: Denigration or display of bigotry, even as off-colour jokes towards any particular community, group, gender or country on the list are not welcome. For example, blond jokes, sardar jokes or accusing a member that you disagree with as 'acting like a male chauvinist pigs' equally have no place and space on this list. </quote> This was erased out by Mani as an obvious example of unsuitable text and I was fine with that. Why is it that it is Mani who goes on writes - "the rat of rat race is different from the nun of a religion." [2]. Who is the bigot here? FWIW, Swami Vidyanathananda aka Mahan Maharaj, a monk with RamaKrishna Mission (Mahan Mitra, PhD in his previous 'avataar') is the 2011 recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award for Mathematical Sciences [3] Are *only* atheists are entitled to FOSS? What is wrong with being a "nun" or a 'monk' if it is someone's personal choice? What is wrong with religious beliefs and practices as long they do not impinge on others' right to believe otherwise Yes, none of the above absolves me for breaching my personal code and the basic premise of m/l etiquette and for that I'm truly sorry. References ========== [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00190.html [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00176.html [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahan_Mj regards -indranil das gupta -- Indranil Das Gupta Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other format is acceptable. Support Open Standards. For a free editor supporting ODF, please visit LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org _______________________________________________ WFS-India mailing list [email protected] Message archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe, please login to your account at http://www.wfs-india.org/ and unsubscribe to the WFS-India list from your account settings. -- WFS-India - http://www.wfs-india.org
