Your participation requested for an academic survey

[osq_project]

Dear forum users,

We are doing an academic research project on online service quality. We would be grateful if you could spare 3-5 minutes and complete our online questionnaire. The link for the questionnaire is provided below.

http://www.uwe.ac.uk/bbs/osq/

Thank you for your help and time.

P.S. The forum leaders gave me permission to post this message.

[ErnieK]

osq_project
Welcome to the forums.

BUT! before anyone clicks on the link could one of the moderators please verify osq_project's statement as far as permission to post it goes.

osq_project please forgive my doubting you, but clicking onto an unknown link by a new (1 post) member is IMHO a wee bit risky.

[pop pop]

I looked and I may be wrong but ... if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck ...

[ixl]

Well *I* sure as heck never gave permission for this. Though I probably would have if asked nicely, I don't like it being said I did when I didn't.

Maybe Pete? mjc?

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[PrntRhd]

ixl,
They would have to FIND mjc to get permission from him, not likely.
I doubt Pete did either, I would guess it's just the spammers giving themselves permission and saying someone gave them permission.
:rolleyes:

[Paleo Pete]

I did give permission, I was asked by PM and replied last night.

[PrntRhd]

Oh, OK then!

[Paleo Pete]

OK... I opted to post another response rather than edit. I didn't have the link available when I gave permission for it to be posted, just an explanation that I hoped was honest.

I just looked at the link and it appears to be just what it says, a questionnaire for a project. I don't see anything too odd in the source html either, then again I don't have extensive knowledge of it, but nothing jumps out as a red flag...

The link is not a typical spammer referral link and the site didn't try to set a cookie.

Anyway, it doesn't look like spam, and as far as I can tell doesn't look like trouble either, it looks like just what I was told, and was posted above. A survey.

[PrntRhd]

Well I went to the site and no registration required, and it was pretty clean and straightforward, 1193 responses so far. Asks about site design preferences for e-business, buying things and such online.

[ErnieK]

Sorry if I offended anyone with my first post, but in the present climate I thought it better. (The net is getting to be just like the weather here - rather unpredictable)

[Paleo Pete]

No problem with me Ernie, actually I'm glad some of the people here are skeptical, that probably means they are even more careful on sites with a lesser reputation than here. I can't find fault with that.

I just wish I had been able to get online and take a look earlier in the day and gotten it cleared up sooner, but I usually don't get online except for checking out customers' machines during the day, and I'm not about to get into going through the forums then... :eek:

[osq_project]

There is nothing tricky on my questionnaire, just a plain questionnaire which doesn't even ask for email address etc. Thanks to those who participated.

Well I went to the site and no registration required, and it was pretty clean and straightforward, 1193 responses so far. Asks about site design preferences for e-business, buying things and such online.

[osq_project]

The questionnaire's webpage was down for about 4 hours yesterday due to a problem with the university's server. It's working properly now. Sorry about this problem.