From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c5a1b550369384d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-07 08:23:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: clanfear@yahoo.com (cal) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada research survey (NOT !) Date: 7 Feb 2002 08:23:35 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <35035799.0202070823.2556cf9d@posting.google.com> References: <35035799.0202060951.43d785d9@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.204.248.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1013099017 9122 127.0.0.1 (7 Feb 2002 16:23:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Feb 2002 16:23:37 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19717 Date: 2002-02-07T16:23:37+00:00 List-Id: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:... > In article <35035799.0202060951.43d785d9@posting.google.com>, clanfear@yahoo.com (cal) writes: > > VDC is conducting the first comprehensive market study of the Ada > > language. > > Untrue. The specified web page deals only with embedded use of Ada. Show me a market study on the Ada Language... > > > language. As part of this research we are looking for developers to > > complete a short survey about their experiences with Ada. Your > > opinions will help tools vendors to design better tools and understand > > your needs. > > But the survey page says you cannot complete the survey unless you > provide an email address, so they may contact you in case you win a > prize. Since the prize was not central to the post here in the > newsgroup, this seems to me just an attempt to collect a mailing > address for spam purposes. If you do not want to recieve the prizes put in a bogus email. I do not care. Last year we gave out 11 Palms VIIs, 15 DVDs and 15 gift certificates to developers and end users who filled out surveys.