From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 30 2:14:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from postfix1-2.free.fr (postfix1-2.free.fr [213.228.0.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92DD837B40E for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 02:14:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bluerondo.a.la.turk (nas-cbv-5-45-115.dial.proxad.net [212.27.45.115]) by postfix1-2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B38AB236 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 11:14:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 525 invoked by uid 1001); 30 Sep 2001 08:59:55 -0000 Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 10:59:55 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Terry Lambert Cc: Salvo Bartolotta , Konstantinos Konstantinidis , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: helping victims of terror Message-ID: <20010930105955.B352@lpt.ens.fr> References: <1001447850.3bb0e1aa11dfc@webmail.neomedia.it> <20010925222900.A71817@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB216E8.89F3419@mindspring.com> <20010926202630.C10954@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB427FD.61AE3E6A@mindspring.com> <20010928144755.C7471@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB6174E.BCDCCAA6@mindspring.com> <20010930021157.A315@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB6A622.58C86193@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BB6A622.58C86193@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 09:57:06PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert said on Sep 29, 2001 at 21:57:06: > > You *may* be thinking of forehead markings worn for religious reasons > > which tend to vary among castes (eg, Iyengars in the south have a > > peculiar style, and this is sported only by the men, not the women). > > These are increasingly rare even in India except in traditional > > settings and religious occasions, so while I could be charitable and > > assume that you were thinking of some such thing, > > This is, in fact, the case, at least for the examples I was > giving, according to the examples themselves ...as I pointed > out in a previous email. In that case I'm interested in knowing what exactly they are. As I said earlier, such caste-specific marks are worn normally by men, and increasingly only on religious occasions. It would be pretty rare to see them in the workplace even in India. I can't imagine seeing 3 on the same day in the same workplace in America. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message