Aunc.1734 net.news utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!lynn Wed Jan 20 08:47:51 1982 marketing research I for one would hate to give a carte blanche for use of the net for marketing research, even though I believe it to be legal unless it percolates over to the ARPAnet. I confess to mixed emotions on this particular issue, though, because I am intensely interested in the results of the survey that started this discussion. Perhaps the ground rules might state that the results of any such survey must be published within two weeks, and the raw replies must be available to anyone who requests them -- this should certainly discourage a lot of marketing surveys, as it would take away the commercial advantage without necessarily stopping those cases where people are really interested. As a matter of plain fact there is nothing wrong with people having commercial advantages and making money. My only objection is personal; it might clog the communications paths I use. Legally I don't see any difference between a USENET survey and a voice phone survey, except that intermediate sites pay some of the phone bills and might object. The objection is valid, but their participation in the net is voluntary. They don't HAVE to forward everything that comes in. (Obviously I am not a lawyer; this opinion is personal.) Lynn F. TenEyck duke!unc!lynn ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.