Re: Fwd: Kylix Kickoff

["SANIsoft" <tarique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We were  - we never went anywhere near BangLinux OR registered other wise

Polite email to remove us were ignored

Swati & Tarique


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-----Original Message-----
From: Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Linux India General <linux-india-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: [LIG] Fwd: Kylix Kickoff


>On Tue, 16 May 2000, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
>> What made Udhay suspicious was the fact that a local dealer for Inprise /
>> Borland had (just some days back) scraped addresses from LI and
bang!linux
>> (you, udhay, khader, swati sani etc etc) and sent a spam to them.
>
>Uh, I did not receive any spam from them. Jessie and I were contacted in
>private mail whether we were interested. I replied to them that I was.
>Jessie and I are listed as coordinators for ILUG Bangalore, but both of us
>have development and Linux backgrounds. We were not hit with any
>unsolicted mail - we received a query, to which we replied.
>
>> >I do not think that this was spam.
>>
>> ymmv :)
>
>I doubt it, and I would sort of protest here that any mail that doesn't
>come from your uncle/aunt/girlfriend/classmate is considered spam. This is
>exactly why I asked how many of you actually received this note.
>
>The note received last was a confirmation of registration. Maybe someone
>at Unmobile or IBM nominated Udhay and Khader?
>
>Before we lambast Borland any further (and I admit that I am more than
>partial to Borland - their development tools were/are a boon to developers
>world wide, and I for one welcome their forays into Linux), let's first
>find out how many people actually got "spammed" before we unilaterally
>slam them with accusations like this.
>
>And Raju - their "clued-in"ness is far higher than most other companies I
>have dealt with when it comes to Linux, with the exception of IBM and SGI.
>
>Tried any Microsoft compilers for Linux recently?
>
>Atul
>
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