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

["Nagendra, VU2CLN" <ewiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

or better/easy soultions would be just to allow gt to post to LIG/LIH
max of 2 mail updates / month.......and comeone 2 mails will not be any
major problem for even a 9.6k mail only users as long as it's only pure
text...we can think gt as a list sponsor(due to free linux cds they give
away) as anyway all others mailing lists(innl/ciol/etc) have commercial
stuff embbeded in them.

Nagendra
VU2CLN

"Nagarjuna G." wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Raju Mathur wrote:
> 
> ->I agree with Fred to some extent.
> ->
> ->While GT is definitely guilty of spam, they are also providing a very
> ->helpful service to the community with their cheap (and not-so-cheap)
> ->CD's.
> ->
> ->Can we work out some way by which GT is allowed to inform the
> ->community when new offers are available while not spamming?  I was
> ->thinking in terms of Taranath sending his catalogue at regular
> ->intervals to the Linux-India webmaster, who could then put it up on
> ->the site and send the URL to the list.  That would solve all problems,
> ->except that the webmaster would have more work to do (but if s/he were
> ->scared of work, s/he shouldn't have taken up the webmaster job in the
> ->first place :)
> 
> The best thing to do would be to have link at the linux-india website
> and other ilug sites to GT's website.  It will be GT's responsibility
> to update their site.
> 
> Nagarjuna
> 
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