Nope. It was the real surveymonkey. -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sharon Starr Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 11:46 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] Remain competitive and help. Your opinion needed Terry B. Baker It sounds like you may not be dealing with the real Survey Monkey. There are look-alikes out there. Just to be sure, I will investigate this with Survey Monkey. We certainly don't want our members getting spammed because they participated in one of our surveys. Sharon Starr Director of Market Research IPC - Association Connecting Electronics Industries(r) 3000 Lakeside Drive Suite 309 S Bannockburn, IL 60015-1249 USA +1 847-597-2817 tel +1 847-597-2845 fax [log in to unmask] www.ipc.org -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Eric Christison Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 9:44 AM To: Listserv Technet Subject: Re: [TN] Remain competitive and help. Your opinion needed Terry B. Baker "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." So are you a millionaire yet? On 14/09/2010 15:37, Stadem, Richard D. wrote: > 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. > > > Sharon Starr > Director of Market Research > IPC - Association Connecting Electronics Industries(r) > 3000 Lakeside Drive > Suite 309 S > Bannockburn, IL 60015-1249 USA > +1 847-597-2817 tel > +1 847-597-2845 fax > [log in to unmask] > www.ipc.org > > -- Eric Christison Consumer& Micro group Imaging Division STMicroelectronics (R&D) Ltd 33 Pinkhill Edinburgh EH12 7BF United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)131 336 6165 Fax: + 44 (0)131 336 6001 ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. 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