Well, so far the other shoe hasn't dropped. As for a targeted mail campain it would suck. They failed to ask for our names. I won't even get one of those:
Dear MR SMITH we have recently heard that you surf for FOURTY PLUS hours per week..... Kind of letters. They could have collected email addresses just by sifting the archives. Less effort, more results. As for the lack of a .edu email, I think only the staff would get those. I thought that this sounded like a continuing education thing. Some of the universities in my province are: www.sfu.ca www.uvic.ca www.cariboo.bc.ca www.ubc.ca Not a dot edu in the bunch. Guess they're not American eh? :) Remember. You aren't paranoid if the world really is out to get you. Grant On Friday 04 January 2002 18:55, you wrote: > Gidday Folks > I saw this email and immeadiately thought, unsigned, hmmmmm. > No mention of which school this "student" is at, hmmmm. > What's in the properties? Hmmmm!!!??? Not coming from a .edu address, hmmm > RCN Mail!!!???, not really what a student would put for their identity. > > Am I just a suspicious cynic, or has someone found an easy way to get > people to fill in a survey without realising? This is a quote from the RCN > website > > "Yet with $2.7 billion in cash and backing by Microsoft Corp. cofounder > Paul Allen and telecom firm Level 3 Communications Inc., RCN appears to be > in better shape to survive the grim stock and capital markets than many > other newbies. Among the new players, RCN has set itself apart by targeting > residential customers, not businesses, and by building a network- home by > home- to deliver cable-TV, high-speed Internet and phone service." > > I'd suggest that 50 have replied via the list and probably as many replied > direct. Lots of assumptions have been made. > The request was genuine. > The author was a "young lad" > The teacher made the questions. > > To quote Julian "Hey, what the heck: statistics are for marketing folk" > Who is going to put a filter on their email to see if they get spammed to > join RCN and let us know if they do? > Or should I just go away and bury my cynical head in shame? > > rgrds > max > > (They're in bed with MS as well.) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "RCN Mail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 5:26 PM > Subject: [newbie] Question - school related so ignore if you want. > > > I need to do a project for my statistics class and thought this place > > would be perfect for it. I need 50 people to answer this and it would be > > greatly appreciated. > > > > 1. How many hours a week do you spend online? > > 2. What is your age? > > 3. Sex? M/F > > 4. What type of Internet connection do you have? > > 5. How many computers do you own? > > > > > > This is for a Elementary Statistics course for a project I am doing. It's > > a wintersession course and I need to collect this information ASAP. I > > need a total of 50 people to respond. > > > > Thanks again if you decide to answer these questions. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >----- > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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