Re: Kylix Kickoff (fwd)

[Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

All:

I wrote to Jag Sury at Borland/Inprise and asked for an explanation. His
answer is attached below.

This seems to have been a genuine mistake/oversight, and 50 or less does
not constitute spam in my book.

I'd let it rest at this - if you guys want to continue to whack them over
the knuckles because it makes you feel good, feel free to get in touch
with them. 

Atul

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Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 11:49:58 +1000
From: Jag Sury <jsury@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Kylix Kickoff

Dear Atul,

Are you back in India?

Thank you very much for your Email and I can understand your anguish over what
has happened.

We have sent Email blasts to may be 50 or less people whose email addresses
were obtained from the Linux User groups operating in India. The attachments
were in MS Word,  may be this was an oversight. We could have sent it as a
HTML Document. I sincerely apologize for what has happened and I am prepared
to convey these feelings to all those who have received our communication. As
far as the attachments are concerned, they were the invitation and the NDA and
it was sent with the Email.

I am sure you understand our intentions to let as many Linux interested people
in India as possible and not limiting to Bangalore. I believe that this is one
of series of events that will happen with our support to Linux. Could you
please review and advise the next course of action.

Thank you once again for your initiative to remedy the sitiuation.

Best regards,

Jagadish Sury

Atul Chitnis wrote:

> Jag:
>
> There is a bit of unpleasantness in the air which I want to clear as
> quickly as possible before it  gets out of control:
>
> Apparently you or your office send unsolicited 500 KB mail attachments to
> dozens (possibly hundreds) of people who were *not* part of your original
> invitation, and who could not possibly have attended the Bangalore event
> (for example people in Nagpur, Delhi, etc.). Worse - the documents were in
> the Microsoft DOC format which cannot be read under Linux.
>
> The Linux community in India seems to be in an uproar over this, and I am
> seeing a fair bit of ugliness rearing its head.
>
> I'd appreciate an explanation from you so that we can try and quieten this
> down without too much further damage.
>
> Regards,
>
> Atul Chitnis
>
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> Atul Chitnis       | achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxx (PGP:6011BCB8)
> Exocore Consulting | http://www.exocore.com
> Bangalore, India   | +91(80)3440397 Fax +91(80)3341137
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