Re: [ilugd] [OT] sapm from amkette

2004-03-13 Thread LinuxLingam
On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 12:43, Raj Shekhar wrote: i visited the cauce india site. couldn't figure out what is a PIL though i read thru their pages. PIL == Public interest ligitation. I am not sure how to go about doing this, I will have to do some research how exactly it works in our

Re: [ilugd] [OT] sapm from amkette

2004-03-12 Thread Raj Shekhar
LinuxLingam wrote: anyone interested in taking on the mantle of eff.org in india? that could really change things around and put these guys on the defensive. LL, if we start a eff chapter in India we will have to do everything from scratch, personally I vote against it. With this in mind, I did a

Re: [ilugd] [OT] sapm from amkette

2004-03-12 Thread Raj Shekhar
LinuxLingam wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 21:27, Raj Shekhar wrote: LL, [snip] I did a search on anti spam law india on google and came across Inidan chapter of CAUCE (http://www.india.cauce.org/). Check out their Got Spammed? page (http://www.india.cauce.org/spammed.html) for some good

Re: [ilugd] [OT] sapm from amkette

2004-03-11 Thread LinuxLingam
[snip everything] :-) to cut a long story short, irrespective of how they harvest email ids or phone numbers or personal data, how can we exercise our need for privacy, rather than begging to have it back? action plan, anyone? you can't digitally black list telemarketeers, right? my demands to

Re: [ilugd] [OT] sapm from amkette

2004-03-11 Thread LinuxLingam
here's a great example of unsolicited stuff. but then, i wish i had the same position of strength to fight back ;-) U.S. Army Warns Microsoft To Back Off http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/11/0053239 [0]declan writes My CNET News colleague Ina Fried has written an interesting

Re: [ilugd] [OT] sapm from amkette

2004-03-11 Thread vivek khurana
--- LinuxLingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: , right? my demands to know how they got my phone numbers and details in the first place are usually met with a startled silence followed by a quick click of phone-disconnect. only to have some other voice call me back a few days later. hmm.. a

Re: [ilugd] [OT] sapm from amkette

2004-03-11 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 LL == linuxlingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LL [snip] LL how do i stop begging to have no junk phone calls, posts, LL emails, or sms from marketeers, and *enforce* this? Uh, you want to do this in a country where today I received a

Re: [ilugd] [OT] sapm from amkette

2004-03-11 Thread LinuxLingam
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 22:22, vivek khurana wrote: hmm.. a problem all of us face. I use a very rude approach and sometimes resorte to foul language. I know its not a good method, but it works!!! Till date i have never received a call from the company whose tele-caller i rebuffed. But again

Re: [ilugd] [OT] sapm from amkette

2004-03-11 Thread LinuxLingam
On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 00:05, Raj Mathur wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 LL == linuxlingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LL [snip] LL how do i stop begging to have no junk phone calls, posts, LL emails, or sms from marketeers, and *enforce* this? Uh,

Re: [ilugd] [OT] sapm from amkette

2004-03-11 Thread Sudev Barar
On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 01:21, LinuxLingam wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 00:05, Raj Mathur wrote: [SNIP] To get back to experiences.. I got on line with Airtel and wanted them to stop sending me Service provider sms. I was told if I did not wantthem I could get SMS service switched off!!! They did

Re: [ilugd] [OT] sapm from amkette

2004-03-10 Thread LinuxLingam
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 12:59, Raj Shekhar wrote: [snip] The suspicious thing was that is addressed me as Dear Linux professional. The only place I had given out that particular email ID was at LinuxAsia. Are they selling those email IDs? Has any one you got such mails too? Moral of the

RE: [ilugd] [OT] sapm from amkette

2004-03-10 Thread Gurpreet Singh Sachdeva
i love fighting a losing battle. tell me what we need to do. Start with the same case reported by honorable Raj Mathur -- 'Sapm' Whoops! Spam from amkette. Find who was responsible for this mail in the poor INBOX of Raj and why the *hell* did they do that??? [RAJ] The suspicious thing was that

Re: [ilugd] [OT] sapm from amkette

2004-03-10 Thread amit soni
professional. The only place I had given out that particular email ID was at LinuxAsia. Are they selling those email IDs? Has any one you got Are you sure you gave it only at linux asia ? Google.com - Linux professional raj shekhar email and rajshekhar_at_hotpop.com I found your email ID

Re: [ilugd] [OT] sapm from amkette

2004-03-10 Thread Raj Shekhar
amit soni wrote: Are you sure you gave it only at linux asia ? Google.com - Linux professional raj shekhar email and rajshekhar_at_hotpop.com You are missing the point. If you are planning an email marketing blitz you do not go about searching for individual emails. You will buy them from email

Re: [ilugd] [OT] sapm from amkette

2004-03-10 Thread vivek khurana
--- LinuxLingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Moral of the story : Use a mailinator.com email ID the next time when registering for any such event. good suggstion [snip] an article won't be enough. i wrote to EFF (eff.org) to ask them if they had an indian chapter or something. they said

[ilugd] [OT] sapm from amkette

2004-03-09 Thread Raj Shekhar
Hello! I received a mail from Amkette which was about Repetitive Strain Injuries(RSI) and how their keyboards can help prevent that (and bring universal peace and harmony). It wanted to send back a return receipt too, which I promptly canceled. The suspicious thing was that is addressed me as