[Asrg] Re: 0. General - Spam survey

["Jon Kyme" <jrk@merseymail.com>]

> I started taking this survey, but stopped after a few questions. One
> reason being
> the point about whether I *remember* providing information, which is the
> same issue
> as another poster mentioned. The second problem involved questions like
> this one:
> 
> 
> "... from a company you do not recognize. You have had a business
> transaction
>     with them in the past."
> 
> This is somewhat confusing. If I remembered that had a business
> transaction
> with them in the past then I would by definition recognize the company,
> which
> kind-of invalidates the question, unless the implicit assumption is that
> I have
> had a transaction with them, but do not remember doing so, which again
> brings
> up the issue of whether the definition of spam depends on the quality of
> the
> memory of the recipient. I do not think so, and I consider questions like
> this
> to make the survey somewhat pointless.
>    

Surely what a *recipient* considers *spam* can only be determined by the
recipient. This can depend on the memory of the recipient. Why is this a
problem for us here?





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