Re: Zoomerang Survey?

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huh, that's really odd. I guess that they are scraping both, which IMHO
isn't a very nice thing todo. :-(

Barry Brimer wrote:
> Quoting Harry Hoffman <hhoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
>> Redhat took the emails from the email used for their up2date service.
>>
>> I know this because the survey I filled out had a orig_to of the contact
>> email for our satellite server and not my personal email.
>>
>> --Harry
>>
>> Barry Brimer wrote:
>>>> Did any of us opt in to any sort of list to request that we be pinged for
>>>> Zoomerang surveys?  Especially since the survey invitation includes an
>>>> "opt out" link?
>>>>
>>>> I certainly hope that Red Hat wouldn't stoop to simply giving out our
>>>> email addresses, whether because we're on their listservs or because
>>>> we're
>>>> associated, in some way, as users of their products, without our express
>>>> permission.
>>>>
>>>> I would also hope that they wouldn't stoop to sneakwrap type tactics,
>>>> wherein they would change their policies, regarding the use of our email
>>>> addresses, with no appropriate notice or prior request for permission.
>>> I don't think Red Hat did anything sneaky.  I think our email addresses
>>> were lifted from the mailing list archives by this third party.  For the
>>> record, I did not sign up for any surveys.
>>>
>>> I have received surveys from Red Hat in the past, but they were clearly
>>> from Red Hat, and in a different format.  These messages were sent to
>>> the appriopriate email address on my Red Hat customer account or my Red
>>> Hat certification account.  The email received yesterday was sent to my
>>> mailing list account.  I do not suspect that Red Hat had any
>>> participation in this survey.
> 
> In my case, the email address used was only that of the mailing list.  I do not
> have a satellite server, but the email address that is used for RHN
> registration was not used.
> 

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