>>>>>Agreed, but those fields were optional. I only gave my email address.
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>>>>>Renoir
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>>>>Oops, I thought they're required :(, so I filled both of them in.
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>>>Nadya,
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>>>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...
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>>>Renoir
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>>Yep, usually asterisks mean, what these fields are required... :)
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>Nadya;
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>Take nothing for granted and always read the "fine print". This seems like a good marketing ploy - to reverse the logic and have people give information that they might not otherwise want to. The part about e-mailing you the results - why not simply publish the results on a web page? Again it seems like someone wants your e-mail address.
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>Now, if I give my marketing department 100 e-mail addresses I will receive $nnn dollars. 200 addresses and I double that amount.
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>I receive enough junk via e-mail. Getting hit by unwanted advertisements, spam or worms, etc. just adds to the fun of the Internet. I try to be careful about such information. Not that it cannot be obtained - I just do not like to do something that could end up anoying me.
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>The original intent of this person may be well founded. However, I do not wish to participate in someone’s "programmer psychological profile". I think we all know what a "great and rewarding profession this is":) We work for the devil and pay him his due. Every professional survey I have ever seen published has programmers ratted at the bottom of the list.
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>Tom

Yes, now I'm regretting, that I've done... :)