At 07:42 PM 11/7/00 +0000, adam wrote:
> >
>Surveys are good, if run correctly. Prizes are even better. But even indirect
>interference with RSP's customers is a minefield.
The only way we would snag one of your end users for this survey would be:
- they happen to hear about it through a promotional medium other than
email (web ad on a site they go to or the like) -
- you invite them to participate
>Might I suggest that rather than asking your RSP's to promote it, you ask us
>to run it with our own customers? It wouldn't take long between us to create
>a CGI script to stick on our servers, which would send the results of a form
>submission to both us and OpenSRS.
An option we can look at for sure. However, we do want to sample people
outside out constituency, people who use NSI etc... we need to find out why
they do not use you (us). Do they not know? DO they love NSI?
> > As previously stated, a big part of the value is finding out why people go
> > with other services, and passing that info along to you.
> >
>I don't disagree with you, but as I've mentioned in the past, my anonymity is
>important to me. I can never hide my affiliation with OpenSRS completely
>(don't get me wrong, I'm not embarassed about OpenSRS, it's just the model
>I've decided to go with), but the more I can, the better.
Crystal clear.
>I think the most important factors here are 1) not damaging the RSP's
>relationship with their clients; and 2) how the survey is going to be
>implemented.
>
>If the survey is implemented well, I have no objection to you talking to my
>customers. But if I don't like the way it's going to be done, I'd prefer that
>my clients weren't involved at all. If I have to be punished for that, by not
>receiving the end results as someone suggested, well and good, I'm prepared
>to live with that.
We will definitely make sure you know what we do with this.
Regards,
sA
Scott Allan
Director OpenSRS
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