We are on our 10th year of existence from Mar 10, 2002, we have come a long way and we are able to discuss Ponniyin Selvan and related history extensivelyand we have quite a few Historical authors, biographers, historians ,archaeologists and bloggers with us.
Earlier one of the moderators dear Sridhar used to do house cleaning activity to remove messages not related to history and kept the group crisp and tidy, off late due to other commitments we were not able to keep up to it. So we started discussing on variety of topics and some of those are not related to Ponniyin Selvan or history. And when new members signup and see the new messages which are not related to history, they unsubscribe. Of course the archive is full of treasure of lot of history related discussions, but it is buried between non-history related to messages which is difficult for a new member to sort through.
So a team has been formed who have taken the task to clean up the group messages. We are basically Literature/History group, so we will have dedicated forum @ http://ponniyinselvan.in for Literature/History related to Ponniyin Selvan and other history literature related. Rest will be categorized as non-related and will be purged when necessary.
After cleaning up we will start exploring alternative to Yahoo Group to discuss at the same time to effectively moderate to make sure the forum's objective is maintained with top quality. We will also start creating articles out of existing discussions so that members don't have read through several topics to extract and figure out the conclusions.
Effective today, all messages to the Yahoo Group will be moderated, so there might be a delay in approving the messages due to other commitments and volume of messages.
On earlier occasions, our dear Doctor Sridhar ( UK) was performing these cleaning operations almost single-handedly for several years and was advising all of us to stick to the topic and change subject related to content of mail.
We can again give this guideline to our dear members.
I know it is a cumbersome job but need to be done someway or other.
Very glad that our stalwart TEAM is taking up this..
I recall our dear member Jabbar offered some support for such tasks. let me mail some known friends too.