Xref: utzoo soc.culture.indian:24473 news.groups:18204 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!sa1z+ From: sa1z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sudheer Apte) Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,news.groups Subject: Re: talk.politics.south-asia: CALL FOR DISCUSSION Message-ID: Date: 27 Feb 90 02:55:06 GMT References: <5231@brazos.Rice.edu> <0ZtK56e00WB90MQJJ8@andrew.cmu.edu> <22527@unix.cis.pitt.edu> , <22561@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Organization: Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 39 In-Reply-To: <22561@unix.cis.pitt.edu> srinath@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Srinath Viswanathan) writes: > It would seem to me that t.p.sa should confine itself to discussions > of political developments that affect more than one country in the > region. I can understand this, but we have differing opinions here. I feel t.p.sa. should be open to all political *discussions*, whether internal or international. (Of course, *news* of current events and historical *information* do belong on s.c.i.) If enough people take exception to this, though, we can still reconsider this question. Anyone? > My response was mainly prompted by your reiteration that t.p.sa > would address the acrimony in s.c.i. I fully believe that that is the > wrong reason to form a new group. Point taken! Also, you're right that all acrimony on s.c.i. is not due to political discussions alone. This implication needs to be removed from the charter. > [...] > > >I hope I've been able to explain the idea a little better. Do you > >think the charter needs to be modified to clarify this point? > > IMHO, yes. I think it would be better to state the objectives > as what it will do within the confines of t.p.sa, rather than what > it will do for s.c.i. Yes, this makes sense, too---emphasizing the positive aspects of what *should* go on t.p.sa rather than what shouldn't go on s.c.i. Thanks for the input; the next version of the charter will be a kinder, gentler one! :-) Sudheer. ----------------- ...{harvard, uunet}!andrew.cmu.edu!sa1z sa1z%andrew@CMCCVB.BITNET