Re: is Linux-India Exocore ?

[Raghavendra Bhat <ragu@xxxxxxxx>]

Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> linux-india.COM is also pointing to the exocore server 
> (203.197.173.225) but to the exocore page - http://www.exocore.com/
> rather than the linux-india.org site.
>

Q.    Re: is Linux-India, Exocore ?
A.    Yes, it is.

Read on....

Somebody created a page for the Kochi (Cochin) Group at [someplace] which can 
be accessed via URL http://cochin.linux-india.org/.  Atul Chitnis has provided
DNS re-direction according to his earlier post in the "Accusations" thread

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 04:28:09PM +0530, Atul Chitnis wrote:

> I only provide DNS support (so that we can have things like 
> chennai.linux-india.org, mumbai.linux-india.org). These
> services are provided via easydns.com, and I have paid for
> these services from my own pocket.
>

Noble idea indeed !  All local LUG's have proper pointers as per Atul's scheme of 
things.  Atul did a _noble_ job.  chennai.linux-india.org points to the correct
page and so are the pages of the other LUGs.  cochin.linux-india.org points to
a page which is [somewhere on the ether].  Who did this, well knowing that the 
Kochi pages are mirrored/hosted elsewhere ?? 


http://cochin.linux-india.org/ also points to http://www.linux-india.org/, which 
according to *public* knowledge is on Exocore's servers.  Nobody from Kochi asked
for the page which can be accessed from the link http://cochin.linux-india.org/.
The Cochin Group's page was mirrored at two places, one courtesy Sudhir Gandothra's
http://www.netshooter.com/ilug-cochin/ and the other courtesy Anand Gupta at 
http://www.ilug-cochin.org/.  Manoj Victor Mathew, who was our Webmaster and who ]
still is according to majority decision (he was kicked out without any reason) was
*correct* in maintaining these two pages at two different locations.  Why did the
people manning the DNS bump us off ??  Some people over here have *real good* 
intentions in promoting GNU/Linux in India.  The spirit of the GNU teaches us 
sharing, here we are seen as bumping each other off !!

I stand corrected and I am ready for a public apology if the above said allegations
are wrong.  Suresh's rebuttals and counter-allegations were proper and were
restrained.  I am fully convinced that the GNU/Linux movement in India saw a hand
of being hijacked by none other than our Exocore/Atul Chitnis, who raved and ranted
at me and Suresh Ramasubramanian.  Shall we start a thread "ILUG-Kochi bumped off" 
now ??


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