Re: [ot - sort of] spammer bites the dust (goodbye gtcdrom.com)

["Binand Raj S." <binand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Raghunath L forced the electrons to say:
> What is this GT enterprises bieng closed?

GT Enterprises is not closed - just their web site.

> Why did a firm serving linux community should be terminated like this?

They were hardly serving - they were giving linux community a bad name by
spamming.

> They  might have thought of Doing marketing through the net, iis it that
> bad?

There are guidelines on how to market via the Internet, and their mailing
list was in violation of these guidelines.

I suggest you go through http://www.mail-abuse.org for further reading.

> Please clear my Doughts.

It is spelt doubts. Or did you mean doughnuts? :-)

> Where s the other place where in i can find linux cd's and software's in
> banglore?

GT should still be in business. But i'd be surprised if Cheapbytes still
continued their alliance with GT. And AFAICT, the Bangalore LUG is full
of helpful people (500+, as Atul posted a few days back), and they would
have CDs of all distributions, and would be willing to share with you.

Binand

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