Re: RFC - Survey (not sales!)

DP Rules? I don't follow. basically what I was proposing was a simple stat on what sort of people lurk on this list or randomly rtfm users brett > Interesting, but how does this map to European DP rules? > (OC, and Watson, Paul - your input might be useful here) > > >From a practical viewpoint, the www.deja.com archive may be a useful > starting point. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brett Geer [mailto:brett@brabys.co.za] > Sent: 20 December 2000 06:26 > To: informix-list > Subject: RFC - Survey (not sales!) > > Morning All, > > (or evening depending on the state of your server and your feed). > > Just lastnight it occurred to me that we see a wide variety of > posts comming in but very few people who answer most of the > questions. > > While watching a horror movie (not a m$ advert) it dawned on > me that there must be a fair readership of the c.d.i group, be it > via usenet or the iiug list. > > It would be interesting to see a stat on the people we have on the > list, location, type of feed, macho level of server that sort > of thing. > > Anyone else? > > brett > -- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brett's 10th law of UNIX administration... rm is forever ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brett Geer - UNIX Admin/Analyst/Programmer - Intratex Holdings. Tel. +27 31 717 4000 Direct. +27 31 717 4146 Fax. +27 31 717 4001 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The little voices are talking to me again, telling me to reach for a keyboard and type rm -rf /* last week they had me rm -rf `echo $MANPATH | sed 's/:/ /g'` now I fear I have no answers -----------------------------------------------------------------

Brett Geer wrote: > > DP Rules? I don't follow. > > basically what I was proposing was a simple stat on what sort of > people lurk on this list or randomly rtfm users Regardless of its simplicity, what you propose is research into usage patterns, interests, profession and hw equipment, all of which are very interesting from a commercial point of view. That's why it's a dp issue and you should get the consent of the people you are collecting information about. Greetings! Volker -- Windows has detected that your mouse pointer has moved. Your computer will have to restart for this change to take effect. Do you wish to restart now (Y/N)?

In the year of Our Lord Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:20:10 +0100, Volker Hetzer <volker.hetzer@fujitsu-siemens.com> broke a vow of silence to utter: >Brett Geer wrote: >> >> DP Rules? I don't follow. >> >> basically what I was proposing was a simple stat on what sort of >> people lurk on this list or randomly rtfm users >Regardless of its simplicity, what you propose is research >into usage patterns, interests, profession and hw equipment, >all of which are very interesting from a commercial point of >view. That's why it's a dp issue and you should get the consent of the >people you are collecting information about. DP = Data Protection (privacy, don't y'know). There are a zillions rules about what you can and can't do with people's personal info in Europe.