On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 20:58, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > chance to icicidirect.com yet to respond to the complaint. Sudev, have you > filed a complaint yet to icicidirect.com yet, using their feedback form? I > think you should send one, wait for seven days, and then it should be put > up the site on the list. Did and their reply was sorry but right now IE only...pause...we are working on it.... In fact before even starting RANT did just that.
> If that is agreeable by others, I will remove ICICIDirect.com for now, and > put them up again if they dont respond. Also wrote back giving some links for security flaws of IE but no response. As Advised by Ajay will now write to RBI. Summary of discussion here and elsewhere is: 1. Try shortcuts / alternatives: My response is that I will but why should I as customer have to find solutions? They should not force me to buy stuff and more over stuff that leads to $ outflow from the country that is plainly avoidable. 2. Positive replies on how to deal: This is what we as consumers [and FLOSS advocates] should work upon. Create awareness and get companies to work on their service. I was quite worried about the post of TCS etc. We need to get out act together. > I think we should have a policy for two kinds of "offenses". > > 1. Where the website puts up explicit notice that the site will > look-good/work only with IE. These can be put up on the list right away. Okay > 2. Where obvious programming incompetency, or mere laziness to test the > site against non-IE browsers, cause a problem of accessibility. In these > cases, we send them a notice and wait for a period of seven days for either > an explanatory mail, or correction of the issue. Failing any of these, we > simply put up the company on the list. That is what am trying with icicidirect.com > Apart from banks, it would be great if we go all out against government > websites which have absolutely no business to discriminate against [SNIP] Way to go. > Remember, one of the main resistance against the adoption of Linux is > interoperability - in hardware, software, websites, internet access ... > everything. You cant just push Linux down the throat of new users unless > these issues are answered. And the only way this issue can be handled is by > publicizing problems caused by providers of goods and services who make > life difficult for Linux users. Viva la revolution!!! ??? -- Sudev Barar Learning Linux _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
