Hi Nalin, Gora and Raj, This was indeed extreme stupidity on my part. I let the "Invite more" feature of that site hijack my gmail account and send invites to all of my contacts, which included mailing lists aliases. I did it in a hurry and should have made been a lot more careful, it did not strike me that this would happen. Apologies for the "email blast".
-Angad On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:34:29 +0530 > "Nalin Savara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Angad wrote: > > > > > >> Check out Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University OSUM > on > > Open Source University Meetup: > > >> http://osum.sun.com/group/jiitosum?xgi=bRcZu48 > > >[...] > > > > > Gora wrote: > > > > > >As has been requested many times before in similar cases, > > >please do not post such generic invitations to mailing > > >lists > > > > > Hi Bro Angad, > > > > Would be great if you could be a little less generic-- post > > a few SPECIFIC words about the underlying philosophy and > > motivation and ideas behind the group. > > Agreed. For example, this would have been perfectly acceptable > as part of the announcement of the JIIT software freedom > celebrations. By the way, it is good to see other people doing > such FOSS events. > > [...] > > Also, dont take Gora's comments abt "grounds for moderation" > > to heart... he can be caustic at times, > [...] > > Excuse me? I can indeed be caustic at times, but maybe you can > use your alkali detector to point out how this was the case here. > I am also perfectly serious about temporary moderation on first > offence in such cases. This is standard policy on other lists, > and, in my opinion, is essential to try and stop the onslaught > of unethical companies, like Orkut and Silicon India, > masquerading as social networking sites. > > Regards, > Gora > > _______________________________________________ > 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]/ > -- Angad Singh http://blogs.sun.com/angad Sun Campus Ambassador Tech Lead _______________________________________________ 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]/
