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- From: bashford@scripps.edu (Don &)
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- Subject: Re: Survey on the Future of Electronic Information Distribution
- Message-ID: <BASHFORD.92Jul27124538@zippy.scripps.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 19:46:07 GMT
- References: <1992Jul25.044321.18144@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- In-Reply-To: jlemay@nwu.edu's message of Sat, 25 Jul 1992 04:43:21 GMT
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- >>>>> In article <1992Jul25.044321.18144@news.acns.nwu.edu>, jlemay@nwu.edu (John LeMay) writes:
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- jlemay> ELECTRONIC SURVEY ON THE FUTURE OF
- jlemay> DIGITAL INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION
-
- jlemay> The Boston Consulting Group is conducting a study on the
- jlemay> future of electronic publishing and distribution, and would
- jlemay> like to get your input....
-
- This looks to me like a blatant commercial use of the net.
-
- Boston Consulting Group is asking us to spend our time to
- give them information, yet there is nothing in their post to
- indicate that the results of the survey will be made available to
- the net community. Evidently they intend to sell the information
- as part of their consulting business. In other words, we are being
- asked to make a collective effort for the sake of their profit
- rather than our own collective benefit.
-
- I urge members of the net community NOT to cooperate with this
- survey unless the Boston Consulting Group agrees to the following:
-
- 1) The raw email input of the survey, names and addresses deleted,
- should be put on an anonymous ftp server so that any member of the
- net community can access them. This accumulation simply reflects
- our own collective effort with little or no value added.
-
- 2) The Boston Consulting Group should not use or allow the use of the
- survey as a means of electronic marketeering (e.g. electronic
- junk-mail lists of survey respondents for sale). To this end, B.C.G
- must delete from their systems the names or addresses of the
- respondents or anything allowing them to identify a particular survey
- response with a particular respondent, or allowing them to compile a
- list of respondents. This means that the raw data available to B.C.G.
- should be identical to the raw data available to all of us on the
- anonymous ftp server mentioned in (1), above.
-
- 3) A summary of the results including the percentage response of
- all questions and the address of the anonymous ftp server mentioned
- in (1) should be posted at least as widely as the appeals for data.
-
- 4) If B.C.G. wants to add value by analyzing the data further and
- using it in its consulting business, fine. But anyone else in
- the net community should be able to get equal access to the raw
- data, do their own further analysis and use it as they wish, for profit
- or whatever. B.C.G. should promise to take no action, legal or
- otherwise, to block people from doing this.
-
- Please do NOT participate in this survey until Boston Consulting Group
- agrees to these conditions.
-
- These are my opinions, not those of The Scripps Research Institute.
-
- Donald Bashford
- Assistant Member
- Department of Molecular Biology
- The Scripps Research Institute
-
- bashford@scripps.edu
-