Re: [Debconf-discuss] US laptop ban and DebConf

2017-03-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 10:53:43PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Call me naive, but I was hoping that somebody would have answers and > would also raise questions. > For instance, one point being, what if the airlines enters US > airspace, doesn't land in US but goes through there to Canada. >

Re: [Debconf-discuss] US laptop ban and DebConf

2017-03-22 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 22/03/17 16:20, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 06:36:12AM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: >> Hi Steve > >> On 21/03/2017 20:02, Steve Langasek wrote: >>> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 09:29:17AM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: >>> There has been no indication that this is in any way

Re: [Debconf-discuss] US laptop ban and DebConf

2017-03-22 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Call me naive, but I was hoping that somebody would have answers and would also raise questions. For instance, one point being, what if the airlines enters US airspace, doesn't land in US but goes through there to Canada. Wouldn't those airlines be also affected by this ban ? I did have

Re: [Debconf-discuss] US laptop ban and DebConf

2017-03-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 06:36:12AM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > Hi Steve > On 21/03/2017 20:02, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 09:29:17AM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > There has been no indication that this is in any way driven by the Trump > > administration. >

Re: [Debconf-discuss] US laptop ban and DebConf

2017-03-22 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, This thread started out okay, and some practical advice followed. But it's already gone the way of a recent thread on debian-private. For that I came up with this procmail rule: :0: * ^List-Id:.*debian-private.lists\.debian\.org * ^Subject:.*\[off\-topic\] $HOME/.maildir/.Trash/ To avoid

Re: [Debconf-discuss] US laptop ban and DebConf

2017-03-22 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 07:25:38AM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > Latest update: don't take flights connecting through the UK either. > > https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/21/uk-set-to-ban-laptops-on-flights-from-middle-east-countries > > Notice they didn't include the UAE airports in

Re: [Debconf-discuss] US laptop ban and DebConf

2017-03-22 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 21/03/17 16:12, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Dear all, > How are we to know if we are affected by the ban or not ? Most > airlines, at least the low-cost ones I know don't have an e-mail id or > even if they have, they don't reply. I have experienced it . I have > tried the live chat option at some