I Object to sites which demand registration before exposing pricing

2006-05-11 Thread Daniel Emory
Yeserday, Siberlogic sent to the lists an announcement
of a new CMS product that integrates FrameMaker. I was
acutely interested. The details of the product seemed
a bit light, but I proceeded anyway to look at the
pricing, which, often, gives you a handle on the scope
and breadth of a product. But, to see the pricing, I
was required to fill out a registration form, which I
refused to do for the obvious danger that the
information I provided would be used in ways I would
not countenance

I got an email back from Siberlogic inviting me to
complete the registration form, which means they had
captured my email address. I replied by demanding that
they remove my email address from their database. 

Siberlogic complied, and explained that they require
registration because of experiences in the past with
competitors. That seems pretty lame to me because,
obviously, any competitor could easily disguise a
pricing probe.

Those of you who also object to a requirement for
providing personal and job-related information before
being allowed to look at product pricing might be
interested in joining an effort to stop this practice.







Dan Emory  Associates
FrameMaker/FrameMaker+SGML Document Design  Database Publishing
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Re: I Object to sites which demand registration before exposing pricing

2006-05-11 Thread John Posada
 refused to do for the obvious danger that the
 information I provided would be used in ways I would
 not countenance

They probably feel the same way about those to whom they are giving
the pricing information

 Siberlogic complied, and explained that they require
 registration because of experiences in the past with
 competitors. That seems pretty lame to me because,
 obviously, any competitor could easily disguise a
 pricing probe.

So could you. Wanna know the number of companies that think I live at
123 Main St and with a phone number of 212-555-1212?

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer

So long and thanks for all the fish.
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I Object to sites which demand registration before exposing pricing

2006-05-11 Thread Daniel Emory
Yeserday, Siberlogic sent to the lists an announcement
of a new CMS product that integrates FrameMaker. I was
acutely interested. The details of the product seemed
a bit light, but I proceeded anyway to look at the
pricing, which, often, gives you a handle on the scope
and breadth of a product. But, to see the pricing, I
was required to fill out a registration form, which I
refused to do for the obvious danger that the
information I provided would be used in ways I would
not countenance

I got an email back from Siberlogic inviting me to
complete the registration form, which means they had
captured my email address. I replied by demanding that
they remove my email address from their database. 

Siberlogic complied, and explained that they require
registration because of experiences in the past with
competitors. That seems pretty lame to me because,
obviously, any competitor could easily disguise a
pricing probe.

Those of you who also object to a requirement for
providing personal and job-related information before
being allowed to look at product pricing might be
interested in joining an effort to stop this practice.







Dan Emory & Associates
FrameMaker/FrameMaker+SGML Document Design & Database Publishing




I Object to sites which demand registration before exposing pricing

2006-05-11 Thread John Posada
> refused to do for the obvious danger that the
> information I provided would be used in ways I would
> not countenance

They probably feel the same way about those to whom they are giving
the pricing information

> Siberlogic complied, and explained that they require
> registration because of experiences in the past with
> competitors. That seems pretty lame to me because,
> obviously, any competitor could easily disguise a
> pricing probe.

So could you. Wanna know the number of companies that think I live at
123 Main St and with a phone number of 212-555-1212?

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer

"So long and thanks for all the fish."