[ILUG-Cochin.org] ethics of internet usage

[Anoop Viswanath]

Dear friends,

I'm receiving several mails telling "Ericcson is distributing free laptop"
or "Microsoft is testing your fortune" or "Yahoo is giving.........." etc.
The mail tells the receiver to forward to max. no: of people and make a cc
to anna at ericcson.com. I remember Salimkumar's dialogue in a malayalam film
when seeing this. I usually send a mail to everyone in the receivers list
with a subject "Salimkumar is distributing free biriyani", explaining
nothing is free in this world. But what use...I am still recieving this type
of mails. These mails are circulating since 1999, when I started using
internet.
I know several students who gets 1 hour in a week for surfing internet. They
spend the whole time playing with orkut. The young generation is not aware
of the real potential of internet. They use it for sending spam mails and in
orkut. Ofcourse, elder people are doing this, but it is of no use to educate
those people. A huge share of the bandwidth available is spoiled by this
type of thousands of useless mails. Forwarded mails constitute 90% of this.
So it is essential to make awareness of ethical practices of internet usage,
atleast in young generation.

So when we talk about ethics of software, this can also be told

Regards

Anoop Viswanath
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