>>>>I filled it out too, but it could just be a way of getting the name and email addresses of IT professionals.
>>>>JLK
>>> Jerry,
>>>
>>>Agreed, but those fields were optional. I only gave my email address.
>>>
>>>Renoir
>>
>>Oops, I thought they're required :(, so I filled both of them in.
>
>Nadya,
>
>You mean you didn't realize that those itty-bitty red asteriks meant that those were optional fields? :) Yeah, it wasn't very clear. Even though I don't believe there was anything malicious about it I still didn't put my name in, so perhaps in the dark recesses of my mind all those "chain letter" posts have something to them after all...
>
>Renoir

Yep, usually asterisks mean, what these fields are required... :)