Carnatic Music Discussion Forums

There are number of Indian music discussion forums available on the net.  Some groups require registration before you are able to participate..

• Carnatic Music Forum (many categories to discuss Carnatic music)
• Carnatic Rasikas (Google group for Carnatic discussion and sharing of music files)
• Research Carnatic (Google group to discuss the research about Carnatic music)
• Carnatic Theory (Google group to discuss theoretical aspects about Carnatic music)
• Carnatic Resource (Group to share resources related to Carnatic music)
• Forum Hub Indian Classical Music (Group to discuss Indian classical music)
• rec.music.indian.classical newsgroup (mainly Hindustani music discussion nowadays)

RMIC

rec.music.indian.classical was the first Internet discussion forum devoted to Indian classical music. 

1. Access the rmic archives via FTP here. (archives were maintained up to mid-1995 only)
2. Access the FAQ or Frequently Asked Questions for RMIC

Left to right
Top row: Ramasubramanian Ramakrishnan aka Subu, Satish Ananthaiyar, Ramesh Vaidhyanathan (all Purdue).
Middle row: Mani Vembar (Cleveland), Mohan Ayyar (Sydney), Usha Rani Pannapalli (Purdue), Praveen Dala (Philladelphia), Aravinda Pillalamarri (Boston). I don't think the little mami to the left of Mani reads rmic!
Bottom row: Balaji (Detroit), Shrivas Sudarshan (Philladelphia), Nandu Gopalakrishnan (Washington D. C).