I have no idea why Apple Mail didn't wrap the lines. That said, I think we should all wear tin foil hats too :)
DSL On 11/10/2010, at 5:11 PM, Nick Andrew wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 04:31:36PM +1030, David Lloyd wrote: >> Well, considering they're one of the big three companies supporting it the >> effort, the service does give a sensible response, many people have noticed >> this (i.e. PEOPLE) whom I personally trust not ALL to have fallen for >> something villainous. Plus, whatever we might think of Telstra, I'm fairly >> certain they'd act on something that was phoney in the interests of their >> own reputation. > > I didn't see any causal connection between www.ideasforgood.com.au and > Telstra. > www.ideasforgood.com.au is registered to "DROGA5 AUSTRALIA PTY LTD", not > Telstra, > and hosted on Bulletproof Networks, not Telstra. However, searching Telstra's > website shows a press release dated today: > > > http://www.telstra.com.au/abouttelstra/media-centre/announcements/send-an-sms-to-help-connect-remote-aussie-kids-with-their-future.xml > > So it's legit. > > I wouldn't trust association ("telstra promotes OLPC so this must be legit"), > popularity ("my friends are smart enough to not get ripped off") or Telstra's > ability to protect its reputation as sufficient evidence of the veracity of > that site. On the face it smells like a scam - kinda like that Bill Gates' > Money chain letter, or at least a stunt, as it is asking the reader to do > something useless to indirectly support a good cause. And then I remembered, > Telstra gets revenue from every SMS sent from their network, probably also > for every cross-network SMS received. The revenue from those SMSs will offset > the cost of supplying OLPC laptops, perhaps up to 25% of the hardware cost. > > And if the promotion is very successful it will reach its 500-laptop limit > and the SMSs will continue to come in; potentially paying for all of the > promotional costs. > > Nick. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
