[OKFN-EN] £10K I.T Grant's - UK Wide

Mon Oct 14 16:30:55 UTC 2013

Passed this on to some charities who investigated and concluded good
chance it was dodgy.
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Paula Graham
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On 14/10/13 16:12, Paul Raven wrote:
> The other risk of spammy behaviour on mailing lists is that of people
> digging into your background; I note that Net Solutions Wales was
> dissolved as a private company in 2010, according to Companies
> House. http://opencorporates.com/companies/gb/05623457 
>
> Of course, there's many perfectly valid and legal reasons why that may
> be the case, but one's willingness to give the benefit of the doubt is
> eroded by behaviour of this sort. Something to consider for Messrs.
> Vidini and Vidini, perhaps.
>
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> On 14 October 2013 15:44, Mamading Ceesay <mamading at gmail.com
> <mailto:mamading at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Claudio,
>
>     This sounds like a great opportunity. 
>
>     However sending the same offer to the same mailing list 5 times in
>     a little over a month is a tad bit excessive don't you think?
>
>     I do hope you're not doing the same thing on other lists,
>     otherwise you will find that emails from netsolutionswales.co.uk
>     <http://netsolutionswales.co.uk>
>     increasingly being automatically categorised as spam in various
>     quarters. 
>
>     I'm speaking as someone who has administered high volume mail
>     servers professionally as well as a subscriber to this list.
>
>     Regards,
>     Mamading Ceesay
>
>     http://twitter.com/evangineer
>
>
>               "A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart."
>               ~Goethe
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>
>
>
>     On 14 October 2013 13:58, Claudio Vidini
>     <claudio at netsolutionswales.co.uk
>     <mailto:claudio at netsolutionswales.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>         Dear Open Discussions Group's,
>
>         We'd very much like to pass our Capital funding opportunity
>         onto your Community
>         member Group's.
>
>         We can assist any UK based Community Group or Charity with
>         I.T. Grant's of
>         10,000 GBP . Full support with no cost to the group or ongoing
>         commitment.
>         Funds are for PC's, Laptops (All Capital considered) and
>         Services. Groups
>         must spend within a year of receipt. Funds are ongoing until
>         at least April 2014.
>
>         Senior Management may apply via email --
>         grants at netsolutionswales.co.uk
>         <mailto:grants at netsolutionswales.co.uk>
>
>         Please add netsolutionswales.co.uk
>         <http://netsolutionswales.co.uk> to your safe senders list to
>         guarantee
>         receipt of correspondence.
>
>         http://www.netsolutionswales.co.uk/e-nsw-2/grants.asp
>
>
>         Best Regards,
>
>         Claudio Vidini (BSc)
>         Director
>         www.netsolutionswales.co.uk <http://www.netsolutionswales.co.uk>
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