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Re: Is this list serving any purpose?

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Vijay Triplicane • June 4, 2002 


Dear Mani,
  I completely agree with Sri Vishwanath. This list and my association with
its members have significantly influenced my understanding of the Sri
Vaishnava philosophy and the rich literature of dhivya prabandham. I can't
think of this group closing down. I have expressed some of my thoughts about
the reasons for reduced activity and some suggestions.  

  We have been seeing a proliferation of new discussion groups and that
could be the reason for lesser activity in bhakti-list. I don't think that
the stricter guidelines are alienating the regular contributors. In fact, it
helps maintain the decorum of this group. 

  But in an effort to circumscribe the discussions, you have generally
restricted any postings on the post-ramanuja works unless they are directly
referenced to to Ramanuja's works. This could be a turnoff for some
contributors. While moderating the postings and making sure that they are
respectful and decent, we could relax those restrictions a little bit. 

  The idea behind logically partitioning the postings and creating separate
groups (sv-poetry, sv-rituals...)for each is good. But that could also
result in dividing the attention and eventually the user loses track of the
different groups. Rather than having many such individual groups, we could
have sv-poetry and bhakti-list merged together. We could also merge the
sv-general, sv-rituals and sv-lectures together. There will just be two
groups (bhakti-list and sv-general) and all the current bhakti-list members
will be made members of sv-general as well. 

  Like Sri Ramkumar has suggested, we could take up postings of tutorial
nature. Some learned members could post a series of articles (not more than
2 or 3 at a time). Other members shall ask questions, clarify doubts and
generally embellish the discussions. And the series shall be throttled by
the user interaction. That will be a more healthy way of learning new
things. 

Azhvar, Emberumanar, Acharyan thiruvadigaLE SaraNam,
adiyEn,
-Viji
(Vijay Triplicane)
  


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