The message I sent referred to Robert X. Cringely's February 26 column
( http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040226.html ), which
mentioned that some westerners might want to consider moving to India
for work. An excerpt:
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<<So I went on the web to see how easy it would be to emigrate to India. I found NOTHING. I called the Indian Embassy in Washington, DC and asked how I could emigrate to India. They didn't know what I was talking about.
What the Indian Embassy was prepared to discuss was how my U.S. employer might transfer me to India for some period of time. I told them PBS had no such expansion plans to my knowledge, though they might make an exception just for me. They were also willing to discuss how I might go to India as an entrepreneur, bringing capital into the country and starting a new business there employing Indians. I told them I had no money to invest. And the idea that I'd just arrive at the Mumbai equivalent of Ellis Island looking for a job, well they found that rather amusing.
You can't just move to India it turns out. Someone there has to want you -- no, they have to NEED you -- OR you have to be bringing with you a big suitcase of cash to start a business. Journeyman techies need not apply.
It's interesting that Indian immigration policies are more restrictive than U.S. immigration policies. There is no true Indian equivalent, for example, of our H1-B work visas. There is no quid pro quo. But then there is also no wave of U.S. engineers clamoring to move to India.>>
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It was a followup to an earlier message concerning the "offshoring" of western jobs to India, and the subject was prefixed "OT": Off-Topic. I wonder how many people actually read the article in question before commenting to this list.
As for your filtering of messages coming in from this discussion list, feel free to implement whatever content restriction methods you feel is appropriate; it's your mailserver, after all. You might want to turn off the auto-notification feature though. Lately, contributors are getting automated personal messages informing them that their email to the list has been rejected due to "sensitive content". If that keeps happening I'll have to remove the account that is originating these messages.
Regards,
Paul
> Dear Mr. Paul,
>
> I under-stand that this group is to discuss the matters related to
piping engineering. Not the Indian attitude or Indian political system.
I request that kind of mail attached below should not be floated to
entire group or content is to be filtered.
>
> With best regards,
> Akash K. Nashine
> > SIEMENS
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