Welcome to INDONET-Tsukuba mailing-list

This mailing-list was created to provide a more convenient mailing system for the information exchange among Indian/Asian Origin Researchers living in Tsukuba. I think we can use it to exchange information and help ourselves to benefit culturally, professionally and socially while living in Tsukuba.

You can subscribe to INDONET by sending a message "subscribe" (without quotes and write it in the body) to indonet-request@kk.tkb.n-koei.co.jp. Similarly, you can unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe".Subscribed users can post e-mails to indonet@kk.tkb.n-koei.co.jp, which will automatically be received by all members of the list.

Currently this list is unmoderated. However, there is a ceiling on the number of mails exchanged per day and is currently set at 10. This way we can keep the mails from indonet from becoming a nuisance! Further, please show restraint in discussing emotionally sensitive topics. In particular, please don't post e-mails that will divide us or create unhappiness to any section of the subscribers. Other than this, the e-mail is free and you can use it to your liking. <*** Guidelines added 20th Oct'97 ***>

Please post information you may have discovered during your stay -- things like Indian stores, commonly used medical terms in Japanese, English speaking doctors, buying/selling car, dealing with accident, useful publications, websites, social events, etc., Short-term researchers can benefit from this database of information, instead of starting from scratch. We are living in a culturally different non-English speaking country. While few of us have been living here for sometime, most researchers are short-termers and normally leave by the time they have understood things around them.

Brief history of this mailing-list is as follows:

(*) Dr.Satya/Dr.Khare helped to initiate networking by organising monthly get-together.

(*) Dr.Amit & Kavitha worked with me in setting up the mailing-list and testing it over. (We are also working on a newsgroup)

(*) The mail server on which this mailing list resides is made available by Nippon Koei Co Ltd.,

(*) Current webpage is maintained by Dr. Amit Rastogi. The address is www.oocities.org/Tokyo/Ginza/9669/. Dr. Seshagiri-Rao started working on a web-page. Dr. Rajaram is contributing a letters section in the web-page.

(*) Guidelines were added after unhappy incidences. Please refer to appendix(13th oct'97)

We look forward for your support in improving the mailing list. You can get more information on this mailing list by contacting any of the persons below.

Kalyan Kumar J. Nippon Koei Co Ltd., a4379@n-koei.co.jp

Amit Rastogi Electro-technical Lab amit.etl.go.jp

Kavitha Riken kavitha@rtc.riken.go.jp

Guidelines

These guidelines were derived rationally using two bases

(1) All members are as intelligent as you are and (2) All members are equal.

There are 4 rules:

(a) Please post creatively

Factual informations, tips, helps and positive thoughts/ideas are welcome, interesting readings and non-offensive-non-political jokes are welcome. "commenting on someone else's comment" and E-mails that amount to "dictionary-checks", "grammer checks", "public prosecutions","judgement" and "me too" are not contributions.

(b) Please avoid negative comments

It takes a lot of time to write something and takes lot more courage to put it on indonet, knowing very well about "ourselves". It is all the more commendable a persons tries to contribute something. It is superior, when we consider the background of the person, his upbringing, his handicaps and limitations. The messages posted may be simple things like "news" or it may contain "english mistakes" or it may be something "that shows our reality". What ever it may be please look at the efforts that go into contributing and please show tolerance. If you have only a negative comment to make... YOU BETTER DON'T SAY.

(c) If you want extra information, do extra work

This is a "information exchange for self-help" program. The key words are "exchange" and "self-help". Don't assume those who are contributing are jobless or its your birthright to get information. Information will not come if you don't contribute or learn to be polite and tolerant. Indonet is a group of Indian gems and everyone is as busy as you are.

(d) Freelance judgement not required

If you want to take part in deciding the policies and procedures, you can join us and take part in analysing from all the aspects while deciding what to support and how. You will need sufficient commitment and time. Day-to-day judgements from users is only an emotional problem.

KALYAN KUMAR J.
Consulting Engineers, Nippon Koei Co Ltd.JAPAN
E-mail:a4379@n-koei.co.jp; pp2k-kmr@asahi-net.or.jp