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- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Message-ID: <Af2PIYu00VouET=n5X@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:14:44 -0500
- From: Michael Bauer <mb5o+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Informal Usage Survey
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- Hi! I'm conducting a survey on how people use the Internet. I was
- wondering if you could help a fellow martial artist out with some
- feedback on a few questions. I'll let you know what I find out.
- Just forward this mail back to me with your answers, I'll process
- everyone's responses and get the results back to you as soon as I can.
- Please place your answers to the questions at the beginning of the
- line following the question. Thanks for your help!
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- USAGE QUESTIONS
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- What have you used your Internet access for? Would you please give an example
- of how you've used it and how it benefitted you or your organization?
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- What is your biggest problem in using the Internet?
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- How do you think that problem could be addressed?
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- NEWSLETTER QUESTIONS
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- Would you be interested in a newsletter with tips and news on using the
- Internet?
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- If you wouldn't purchase a subscription to such a service, skip the
- following questions and go on to the section titled CURRENT SERVICES
- QUESTIONS.
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- What do you think would be a fair price for such a yearly subscription, A,
- B, C, D, E?
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- A. X < $25?
- B. $25 <= X < $50?
- C. $50 <= X < $100?
- D. $100 <= X < $500?
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- Would you buy such a service at this price?
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- Would you advocate that someone else in your organization do so?
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- If so, who?
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- CURRENT SERVICES QUESTIONS
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- If you've never used an information service (Archie, WAIS, WWW, or Gopher),
- skip to the NEW SERVICES QUESTIONS section.
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- What service(s) have you used (Gopher, Archie, WWW, or WAIS)?
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- Which is your favorite information service (if you've only used one, skip
- this question. We'll call it your favorite by default.)
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- Of all the software packages you've ever used, (anything, word processors,
- spreadsheets, etc.) what's the best one?
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- How would you rate each of the following statements about your
- favorite information service in comparison to your favorite general
- software package on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 means you strongly
- DISAGREE with the statement and 5 means you strongly AGREE with the
- attribute.
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- It's easy to install.
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- It's easy to use.
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- It performs well.
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- It's robust.
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- There's good documentation available for it.
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- Consulting on its use is readily available.
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- Bugs are fixed in a timely fashion.
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- Updates are regularly provided.
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- What would you say is the best feature of the service?
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- What would you say the service could do in addition or do differently?
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- NEW SERVICES QUESTIONS
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- How would you describe your ideal information service, given the current
- state-of-the-art?
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- Suppose a new software product were available that provided a "topic-oriented"
- access to the Internet. For example, you would be a software version of
- an Internet User's Guide, where access to all resources relevant to a topic
- (Newsgroups, FTP Sites, Telnet Connections) were "bundled together." You
- could browse a list of topics for resources or add your own. What do you
- think about such a service?
-
-
- If you wouldn't use a commercial version of such a service, skip the
- following questions and go on to the section titled BACKGROUND QUESTIONS.
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- What do you think would be a fair price for such a service, A, B, C, D, E?
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- A. X < $100?
- B. $100 <= X < $500?
- C. $500 <= X < $1,000?
- D. $1,000 <= X < $5,000?
- E. $5,000 <= X < $10,000
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- Would you buy such a service at this price?
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- Would you advocate that someone else in your organization do so?
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- If so, who?
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- BACKGROUND QUESTIONS
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- What computer do you use?
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- How do you connect to the Internet?
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- What organization are you primarily affilated with?
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- What is your role or title in that organization?
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- What computer publications do you read?
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