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 unsolicited calls.
opt-in lists will not lead to usable results, because the statistics will be skewed, and you know that. Nevertheless, I agree that calling random people is rude. > 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 sender. (Note that I find mail advertisement highly offensive, but surveys are not at all comparable in mass). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
