[Reader-list] a letter to Sarai admin

[Srikanth Thunga]

I completely agree with Yousuf.

I have a suggestion. Move sarai to ning network or something similar. I am a
member of open anthropology group on ning and I have found it to be very
versatile which makes a lot more sense. Please check
http://openanthcoop.ning.com/

I have a little bit of experience on ning & I can help the owner to pilot
it/test it etc...

Keith Hart, who was the creator of OAC on ning is aware of this group I got
enticed to join this only on suggestion of Arvind and Keith Hart on OAC.

In my opinion, sarai still seems to be on decade old technologies of mailing
lists when internet has improved to a much mature platform.

I had mailed the owner once a while ago, but never got a response. I wanted
to suggest a more mature platform to the owner as I was overwhelmed by the
number of emails I get everyday on this mailing list. I am still not used to
reading all emails on sarai and there are no alternate ways of looking at
the information. I happened to read this email also by chance only.

Regards,
-Srikanth

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Yousuf <ysaeed7 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear Sarai readers, especially the admin
> We have discussed this a million times, but the habit of a few people to
> put the entire list (of 2000+ subscribers) on ransom by only discussing
> their favourite topics day-in and day-out doesn't seem to stop. I am not in
> favour of moderating or censorship (and I love freedom of speech), but those
> of us who post 40 emails a day should at least think about the excesses they
> are creating in the world.
>
> Sometime ago someone had suggested that each subscriber should be
> restricted to post a certain number of mails a day (maybe 2 or 4). Why can't
> we follow something like that. I wonder if the Sarai list has the technical
> options to automatically restrict people from posting in excess, but
> something needs to be done desperately. These days, whenever I have any
> conversations about Sarai among friends, everyone seems to have grown fed up
> with it - many are thinking of unsubscribing or already have. Simply
> deleting or ignoring the mails or applying filters is not enough. Because
> one usually is tempted to subject headers, and one opens the Sarai mails
> with a lot of expectation. But many a times, one gets disappointed to see a
> sort of personal chatting going on.
>
> Why are we doing this hara-kiri in the name of freedom of expression.
>
> Yousuf
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