Re: [newbie] Question - school related -- Have we been conned????

2002-01-04 Thread Grant Fraser
Well, so far the other shoe hasn't dropped. As for a targeted mail campain it would suck. They failed to ask for our names. I won't even get one of those: Dear MR SMITH we have recently heard that you surf for FOURTY PLUS hours per week. Kind of letters. They could have collected

Re: [newbie] Question - school related -- Have we been conned????

2002-01-04 Thread shane
pulling marketing data on MS's dime for selling internet connections to linux users if nothing else that takes bal. err guts. ;) On Friday 04 January 2002 18:55, you spoke unto me thusly: Yet with $2.7 billion in cash and backing by Microsoft Corp. cofounder Paul Allen and

Re: [newbie] Question - school related -- Have we been conned????

2002-01-04 Thread Julian Opificius
Or, from a slightly different perspective ... My favorite tag-line, which till now I've not used on this list, is Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they AREN'T after me. j. === At 10:15 PM 1/4/02 -0800, you wrote: Well, so far the other shoe hasn't dropped. As for a targeted

Re: [newbie] Question - school related -- Have we been conned????

2002-01-04 Thread Michael Viron
As for the lack of a .edu email, I think only the staff would get those. I thought that this sounded like a continuing education thing. This depends on the University or institution in question. For example, at the University of West Florida (which I graduated from in Fall 2000), students are