Re: RFC - Survey (not sales!)
Ah yes, it just occurred to me that the accumulated data could be used for analysis sales wise... Ok ppl, here's what, lemme go grab someone's little 'we shall not email you nothing for any reason or sell your information to another.' Better... lemme setup a web page for this, that way (with a little disclaimer saying that I won't rip the information from your browser) I'll get back to y'all brett Robert Stuart wrote: > > Data Protection > > Basically, it's what you are allowed to do with personal information stored > (or, more to the point) what you are not allowed to do with it. > (From your response Brett, I assume you know that, but my presumption that > interested readers would follow that is - presumptuous.) > > If, as you suggest, the information is anonymous, then I believe you should > be OK. > > Cheers > > Robert Stuart > > P.S. Belief is not knowing. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brett Geer [mailto:brett@brabys.co.za] > Sent: 20 December 2000 09:06 > To: Robert Stuart > Cc: informix-list > Subject: 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------