I did not have enough time to expand on my caution note about surveymonkey.com yesterday. Here is what happened to me. I answered a survey from them, the topic is forgotten. The next day I found about 10 spams from companies trying to sell me a large variety of online products. The second day, there were about 40-50 spams, including three or four from surveymonkey urging me to participate in other surveys and get paid for it. The third day I had more than a hundred spams from many different companies, everything from auto insurance to Viagra. Then I started getting 4 or 5 emails from surveymonkey urging me to SPONSOR surveys through them, and telling me I could make millions depending on the number of surveys I sent out and the number of people responding. Finally, it was so bad I had to close my email address and open a new one. I later heard other people discussing this and found out the same thing happened to them. -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Guy Ramsey Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 8:53 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] Remain competitive and help. Your opinion needed Terry B. Baker Interesting, I answered the survey yesterday. This morning I got a request from Survey Monkey to answer another survey. It may be a coincidence, but I have not received this kind of message before. -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Terry Baker Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 10:37 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] Remain competitive and help. Your opinion needed Terry B. Baker Sharon Thank you so much! That clears that up I have never had a problem with Survey Monkey. You have a genuine think tank going on here, it is so impressive to see this much innovation going on in cyber space. It gives me faith in our ability as a humanity to work together. Additionally I have learned a lot working with your crew. Most of all, I have gotten my own UMUC (University of Maryland, University College) email address, I never realized how important that was with survey research! I think your team has more to say about efficient supply chains than they realize, sometimes its intuitive. Supply chain efficiency is not necessary something that's in a textbook, its effective communication in real time. This is something that your cyber team has learned, that cannot be achieved through any manufacturing procedure implemented. Watching so many people work with through common problems with uncommon agility is entirely empirically fascinating. Again people are the main reason for a systems success, and never the reason for a systems failure. In any case, if you have not, I would ask you to take my survey if you wish, and again, I thank all of you for your feedback. There IS a 500 dollar cash prize and I am shutting my data collection down at the end of the month so I cannot yet say what the definite odds are. I CAN say its less than one in 300, probably closer to 1 on 100. Sincerely and warmest regards, Sincerely and Respectfully, Terry B. Baker (814)-329-7357 Doctoral Candidate University of Maryland University College 3501 University Blvd. East Adelphi, MD 20783 USA Phone: 800-888-UMUC (8682) Tom Mierzwa (Chair, Doctoral Program) Monica Graham (Admissions and Advisory Contact) In a message dated 9/13/2010 3:15:38 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: Yes, IPC uses Survey Monkey quite a lot. I've used it for 15 or 20 projects over the past three years or so, with no problems. 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