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 ma

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). Thi

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-04 Thread Curt Daugaard
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 10:12:50AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > 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 publi

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

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

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-03 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

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-03 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 don

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-03 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 unsol

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

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

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 dia

Re: ITW/P: freecati

1999-10-02 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

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 pro