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Administration - 2/02 - Use of Archives.

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champakam • Wed Nov 27 2002 - 17:35:08 PST 


Dear Members:

1. Last week, I sent a note in which I made some recommendations on 
the AcArya prostrations.  I got one response, in which the member 
indicated that it is best to keep this section to a couple of lines.  
This member recommended that the Moderator be authorized to replace 
anything longer, with "SrI:, SrImate rAmAnujAya namah".  I will wait 
for a few more days to see if there are other suggestions, and then 
go ahead with the implementation of this suggestion, if there are no 
major objections.

(One member got the impression from my previous mail on this subject 
that I was insisting on at least a couple of lines of prostrations to 
AcArya-s.  This was not my intent.  My intent was that, those who 
include this section, should limit it to two or three lines maximum.  
It was not my requirement that everyone must include this section).  

2.  A lot of very useful, informative, and educational material is 
effectively communicated and exchanged in our forum.  Since the 
bhakti list has been in active existence for several years now, a lot 
of information exchange has taken place, and SrI Mani has had the 
foresight to archive all the correspondence in easily accessible and 
retrievable form. 

I would like to make one observation. This relates to the 
postings where people ask for information such as the meaning of a 
given pASuram, a given stotram, or other informational questions.  
Since I have been a member of the forum for a few years now, I 
recognize that some of these questions have been discussed before in 
quite some detail, and so I have been responding to the members by 
first looking at the archives myself, and then giving them the 
reference to when the issue has been discussed.  My request to the 
members is that before they post their questions, they kindly take 
some time to go through the archives and see if their question have 
already been discussed, and post their question only if they are 
unable to get the answer to their question.  I assume this is the 
purpose of archiving all the correspondence from previous years.  So 
please make good use of them.

I plan to keep sharing observations such as the above periodically, 
and I hope these will be of value especially to the newer members of 
the bhakti list.

-Your Moderator.



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