Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-05 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 12:08:59PM -0700, A.J. Rossini wrote: Just for the record, some of us use CATI to get information from subjects (voluntary participation) who can not come to a research site for various reasons . i have no problem at all with voluntary participation in surveys or

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:13:02AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: even opt-out lists are the wrong solution...because they don't work very well (especially when usage of them is optional). telephone pests should be limited to calling ONLY an opt-in list, people who are willing to receive

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-04 Thread Raul Miller
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:13:02AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: it may be an important tool, but that doesn't give you or anyone else the right to pester people in their own homes. it really does no good to apologise or even to promise not to call back - by that time, the damage has been

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-04 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 01:02:55AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:13:02AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: even opt-out lists are the wrong solution...because they don't work very well (especially when usage of them is optional). telephone pests should be limited to

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-04 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 07:29:15PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:13:02AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: it may be an important tool, but that doesn't give you or anyone else the right to pester people in their own homes. it really does no good to apologise or even to

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-04 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Oct 04, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: cold calls are annoying regardless of their purpose. sales calls are especially annoying, but that doesn't excuse academic or market research surveys. Yes. What I find acceptable are snail mail surveys. Those can be easily ignored, and are paid by the

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-04 Thread Curt Daugaard
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 10:12:50AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: snip me or find another public forum more to your tastes. if what i say is objectionable to enough other people then it is i who will have to find a forum which tolerates me. Since you offered, and since I am a part of this

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-04 Thread A.J. Rossini
CS == Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CS On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:22:11PM -0500, Chris Lawrence CS wrote: For the unfamiliar, CATI programs are used to to conduct surveys over the telephone (although they can also be used in other contexts). Think of an

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-03 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:22:11PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: For the unfamiliar, CATI programs are used to to conduct surveys over the telephone (although they can also be used in other contexts). Think of an installation wizard with a modem dialer and database backend, and you've got the

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-03 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Oct 03, Craig Sanders wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:22:11PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: For the unfamiliar, CATI programs are used to to conduct surveys over the telephone (although they can also be used in other contexts). Think of an installation wizard with a modem dialer and

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-03 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Oct 02, Chris Lawrence wrote: On Oct 03, Craig Sanders wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:22:11PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: For the unfamiliar, CATI programs are used to to conduct surveys over the telephone (although they can also be used in other contexts). Think of an

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-03 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 10:50:06PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: On Oct 03, Craig Sanders wrote: IMO, this is morally akin to writing free software specifically to make spamming cheaper and easier. No, it isn't. Survey research is an important part of the social sciences. it may be an

ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-02 Thread Chris Lawrence
I intend to write and package a free computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) application for Linux; there appears to be no free CATI software in the universe, and what CATI software there is is extremely overpriced (per-seat licensing), runs on certain operating systems that aren't free