> In Aravinda's proposal (which I seconded) the flow would be one
> sided. Everything posted to TELUSA would be available to SCIT. However,
> the follow-ups on SCIT would not make it back to TELUSA. Only those that
> want to access SCIT will access the follow-ups (both the good ones and
> the bad ones). So, TELUSA would not be an isomorph of SCIT or vice-versa.
In practice however, this will be slightly more complicated: consider
that a TELUSA poster wants to reply to a follow-up on SCIT. Because
cross-posting is not the norm, there will have to be two different
replies, thus causing more work for the poster and also breaking the
continuity of the flow for the TELUSA readers. This is bound to
happen very frequently... Did I get the proposal right, or am I
missing something??
> Unless there is a device linking TELUSA and SCIT that can be
> easily invoked by the posters, I do not believe there will be a great
> deal of selective cross-posting from TELUSA to SCIT - not because that
> people don't want to do it, but most of the posts to TELUSA are
> off-the-cuff replies to a post, and a cross-post is an extra step that
> won't likely be taken.
Precisely. Apart from the initial msg, any follow-up discussion has
to be somehow coordinated between SCIT and TELUSA, and I don't see
a clear mechanism for that yet.
>
> I am not sure how this pumping-in of the TELUSA articles to SCIT
> would defeat the general charter of SCIT. This would in no way restrict
> the posting of any other Telugu language or Telugu culture and even
> Telugu region related articles in SCIT by anybody.
>
It defeats it in the sense that heavy concentration of literature
related articles will dissuade posters with other interests; and
although you may not intend it, SCIT and TELUSA will end up being
isomorphs. To illustrate this, one has to just look back on TELUSA
posting patterns: the posts on etymology issues vs. those on
samasyA pUraNalu vs. those on this thread are an almost non-
intersecting set, both temporally as well as in terms of the people
who post on those threads. samasyA pUraNalu thread almost overwhelmed
everything else. Extrapolating this, heavy literary concentration
would almost drive out everything else, even other interesting topics
from SCIT. Thus although I am partial to literature, I don't see it
as a primary focus for SCIT.
> Now, let's come up with an action plan on how to do it.
>
> Regards --- V. Chowdary Jampala
>
An action plan for rekindling SCIT while retaining its character and
promoting its charter. Since we agree that some or all TELUSA posts
could do part of this job, maybe we should focus on figuring out a
mechanism for this step (work out the technicalities), experiment with
it and see how it goes. Then maybe the 'policing' proposal and the
'seed article' proposal can be discussed more clearly. Later on maybe
even the scit-moderated proposal.
--sreenivas-- dsr@vnet.ibm.com