Hi there, I have an LPIC 1 certification which I can say has been a help in job searches and also applications to emigrate.
Also in having the LPIC 1 I was awarded 2 further awards from Novell, as they deemed it that the course covered the knowledge needed for those exams... On 23 April 2010 11:51, Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote: > Hi David, > > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 03:03:24PM +0100, David wrote: > > What does everybody think about these certifications? > > > > In late 2008, LPI-UK sent me what I considered at the time to be several > pieces of uninteresting unsolicited email. After asking how they got > my address it turned out that I had once expressed an interest in an > LPI exam at a FOSDEM event and LPI shared my email address with all > of their affiliates, which is allowed in the "small print" of their > privacy policy (so not technically unsolicited). > > I attempted to unsubscribe from the marketing mail (which itself > contained no unsubscribe link) but got an error from the LPI mailman > instance. In all it took 7 weeks and several back and forth emails > with Bill Quinn for me to be removed from this marketing list, > during which time I received several more marketing emails, some of > which were duplicates of the other. Some excuses given for the > inability to unsubscribe me included: > > "Due to Canadian Data Protection Law, I / LPI-UK can not view or > alter the names on the mailing list. I can only make a formal > request to LPI to remove you from the list." > > I was not the only person to experience this; see thread starting at: > > http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/2008-October/074599.html > > I received no apology for this at the time, and only later when > someone brought up the incident again on a mailing list and I > chipped in with my account of my experience did Bill apologise to me > on behalf of LPI-UK. Unfortunately in that same email he called me a > liar over my claim of receiving duplicates of the same marketing. > > My mail box disagreed with him: > > Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 17:19:01 -0500 > From: Scott Lamberton <slamber...@lpi.org> > Subject: Upcoming LPI Webcasts: December 17th > > Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:22:03 +0000 > From: Bill Quinn <bill.qu...@lpi-uk.org> > Subject: [lpi-alumni-uk] Free LPI Webcasts > > As a result of this I personally will never have dealings with > LPI-UK or Linux-IT. I have not experienced anything bad from any > other LPI affiliate but since taking an LPI exam requires giving LPI > your email, and LPI's privacy policy says they will share your > details with their affiliates, I can't recommend that either. I hope > that Linux-IT's understanding of customer service and the UK Data > Protection Act has improved in the last ~16 months. > > As it happens I do hold several Linux and IT-related certifications, > all of which are associated with more "enterprisey" corporations > than LPI, and none of them aggressively market to me in this manner. > > Cheers, > Andy > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEAREDAAYFAkvRe6sACgkQIJm2TL8VSQs+gwCfUVCJtQjP8gemVujHEnA2z/fk > cp4AnRp3xaFsZ2M3HLL5nGuC9dJGU1yE > =qrUk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > >
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