On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 10:54:50PM +0530, Vinayak Hegde wrote:
On 7/19/06, Rony ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hello All,
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This mail has nothing to do with Linux or FOSS technology in general. While some amount of offtopic mail (explicitly marked OT) is ok, most people would welcome content which is relevant to FOSS -- which is why they subscribed to it in the first place.
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To put in a concise manner, this might not be the best forum to air ideas related to technology unrelated to FOSS. Sorry if I come across as rude but I value relevancy as do majority of people on this list. Besides these mails go to 1000+ members. Admin can probably give the exact number. You are wasting their time and energy.
There are many mails on this list having topics irrelevant to FOSS, the most popular ones are Govt. bashing and ISP lashing and now blog. The purpose of this mail was to have a positive approach towards solving problems through use of technology, instead of simply criticising as in the earlier list mails on the blasts. Even if we feel that some type of technology is not feasable, sooner or later we will have to think about it and impliment it. We can't have Z+++ security for politicians and none for the public.
Social and political problems apart, the common man is unnecessarily suffering the brunt of terrorism. Many of us on this list use the Western railway, including I and by the grace of God we are all still here to write about FOSS. This was not a local roadside accident that we simply ignore. We will be facing more attacks in future. We cannot root out terrorism through trechnology but we can atlest use it to protect ourselves to the maximum and reduce the possibility of attacks in our environments. Thats why the developed nations are better off with security.
Some of us on this list are using FOSS for security systems and access control so it is a relevant topic for this list. Before any concrete idea or suggestion can be given to the Govt., first there should be some discussion on how it can really work. Everyone is free to put in their own alternate technical ideas for security.
Regards,
Rony.
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