Re: My research on Gmail

On Jan 15, 8:14 pm, Sampath Ranganathan <sampath.memp...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi,

I tried to contact the group moderator to get permission to post the
following message.But I learnt that in usenet groups, there are no
moderators or owners.So I am posting the request directly to the
sci.math.num-analysis group members.

I am a doctoral student in marketing at University of Memphis, TN.For
my dissertation, I am studying the factors that motivate people to be
loyal to email service providers like Gmail.

I have hosted a survey on survey monkey, the research portal. The
survey contains around 90 questions.If you agree to participate in
this study, all you need to do is to visit the following URL and click
on your choices.The survey wouldnt take more than 10 minutes of your
time.

survey url:http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=RZ0GhvcQAQguLpTvBHLDxg_3d_3d

Confidentiality:
None of the members of sci.stat.math will be identified individually.I
will collect demographic information such as age and
gender.However,the analysis is at aggregate level and personal
information will not be revealed in the reporting of the findings.

After the analysis is completed, I will share the summary of results
with group members.I believe that they will be interested to know
about the outcome of this research.

Prize:
As an incentive to encourage participation, one out of every 75
respondents, chosen by a raffle, will win a $50 cash prize. I will
ensure that if 75 responses come from this group, a raffle will be
conducted separately for this group, so that one sci.math.num-analysis
member gets the prize. If responses cross 150 from this group, two
lucky group members will get $50 each and so on. If responses fall
short of 75,respondents will be combined with  respondents of other
groups to participate in the raffle. (Rules: Maximum of 5 winners per
group,check will be mailed only to United States addresses, only group
members can participate)

I am in the final stages of my dissertation and your participation in
this survey will mean a lot to me.If you need any details about the
survey you are more than welcome to contact me at
sampath.memp...@xxxxxxxxx or srang...@xxxxxxxxxxxx

gmail accounts are currently flooding this newsgroup with SPAM.

Rather than loyalty to something like gmail, I have come to despise
it.

It's worse than the onslaught of AOL and WEBTV and I did not think I
could ever imagine something worse than that.

I have sent several dozen complaints to GOOGLE about spam posts in
news:sci.math.num-analysis and news:sci.crypt and have receieved very
little feedback. I see the problem as ballooning out of control and I
personally wish that gmail would be put six feet under.

IMO-YMMV.

P.S.
Yes, I am using google to post this. But I also have a news server
account and so if the whole thing got canned, I would still approve of
it.

.

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