2009/1/15 Vivek Varghese Cherian vivekcherian@gmail.com:
Cross posting is not a nice idea either. I full appreciate your energy and vigor and earnestness in sharing this information, but I
Vivek,
This is purely a personal attack on me. Clearly I did not cross post and you know that too.
This is also called a strawman argument. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
"one describes a position that superficially resembles an opponent's actual view, yet is easier to refute."
personally feel that cross posting is not the way to go about this. We have had personal discussions about this in the past too (your answer then was that you like all discussions to take place in the public eye), but repeated cross posting(s) (usually) with an apology (usually performed by yourself and/or a few other members of your Malayalam l10n inner circle) is quite well known to every one around here. Kindly refrain from this behavior at least on this list is my most humble request.
Clearly shows your intent. None of this is relevant to this list (except it clearly shows we have strong personal disagreements).
IIRC you have posted this same info ditto to FSF-Friends, FSUG-Bangalore, ILUG-Bombay and one of the Malayalam l1on group lists. I use gmail to access all these lists and it's personally very annoying for me to re-read your repeated posts on the same topic from all these above mentioned lists.
There is a legitimate concern whether this was on topic here. I understand the concern and responded to it. But this is totally out of place here. This list is not run to satisfy every one's personal tastes and/or lack of it. Tell me if it was not relevant to the list (like many others did), I am ready to listen. If you subscribe to multiple lists you may get same mails multiple times, there is no problem in that. If you read about cross posting and why it is bad, you would come to know none of those apply in this case.
I see Fred's mail from multiple mails too, that is how it is supposed to work.
The only practical solution I can see is that you can post it to any one of the lists and request any one your friends to post it to one other list. That way at least it is not theoretically cross posting.
And it is not practically cross posting either. The practical solution would be to keep your personal disagreement with me personal and not drag the list into it.
This list has seen enough of discussions on topics which is more of noice to signal, but I can't but comment on your action as it is personally very annoying to me.
I can't help it, you have to suffer it :-) As for the other legitimate concern, I'm considering options, including a new list.
ps: I fully understand the difference between cross posting and multi posting.
and yet you wanted to take a shot at me.
"Crossposting is the act of posting the same message to multiple forums, mailing lists, or newsgroups. This is distinct from multiposting, which involves posting multiple identical messages, each to a single forum, newsgroup, or topic area."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting
Is it enough that you disagree with me to accuse me of things I have not done?
Since you are using gmail creating a filter to delete my mails would be a possible solution.
- Praveen