Help wanted with system test...

[connexion]

I'm not looking to spam anyone or sell their data but need help to test a simple market research system that i have built. I'm looking for about 25-50 people to let me send them an email inviting them to a webform to see if the "process" works correctly from start to finish.

The form asks for limited data about people but nothing that can identify them personally. Just gender, age group and postcode prefix.

Can anyone who is OK with sending me their email address to enable me to test this please send to:

mailconnection@dsl.pipex.com

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Vince

 

[ByteMyzer]

Are you not able to test it on yourself to validate the solution?

 

[boblarson]

Vince, you can send it to me. I'll send you one of my email addresses.

 

[connexion]

You'd assume so wouldn't you? but....

To be honest what i need is variety! (The spice of life!)
Part of the application deals with correctly interpreting information sent back to me from a webform which is emailed and contains all sorts of odd characters, line feeds, tabs etc etc.

I don't want to say "i've tested it" when it hasn't head to deal with what will be thrown at it in the real world so i'm interested to see if for around 25-50 people it can correctly interpret their "different" data items.

Vince

 

[connexion]

Thank you bob.

people are so scared of anything adverse happening! it's only an email address not as if i'm going to turn up at their house with a stocking on my head...i've got better things to do...."this weekend anyway!" lol

 

[ByteMyzer]

connexion, most people do not care to indiscriminately provide an email address because it is so easy to then become BOMBARDED with SPAM. No offense, but unless your web form is secured (https://www.xxxxx....) it is too easy for "eavesdroppers" to obtain the submitted information and add it to their bulk e-mail lists.

 

[connexion]

Hi ByteMyzer,

Thanks for your feedback.

You make a good point, however i don't agree with it. In my opinion ANYONE taking your email address through whatever method is potentially someone who is going to sell it and data protection registered or not, large or small, legitimate or not we all know that our information is being sold without our permission.

It's been happening through our letterbox for years and email is no different.
Stikes me as starnge that the worst offender is actually the government, since in business i receive mailshots based on information held by companies house!, and at home i receive junk based on completing the national census!!

What i was trying to do was test people's willingness to supply their data and the answer is abundantly clear.

So let me put it another way...

You come home at night, download your email and you have 60 "spam" emails from people you don't know, offering you things you're not the slightest bit interested in...that's bad right?

BUT
You come home and have 60 emails which over the next 4 weeks are going to save you £295 buying 15 things that you were going to buy over the next 4 weeks anyway!...AND...you get paid £6 just for receiving those 60 emails!!

Do you still see those 60 emails as spam OR if you got paid for each one you received would you wish that you'd received 600 and not just 60?

Vince

 

[ByteMyzer]

You make a good point, however i don't agree with it. In my opinion ANYONE taking your email address through whatever method is potentially someone who is going to sell it and data protection registered or not, large or small, legitimate or not we all know that our information is being sold without our permission.

The difference is that, if my email is submitted over a secure connection, and I start receiving spam, I know who the most likely culprit is. Over a non-secure connection, there is far less likelihood of my tracking the party responsible. As a rule, I do not indiscriminately give out my email, for the very reason you stated above.

What i was trying to do was test people's willingness to supply their data and the answer is abundantly clear.

Ahh, so your ostensible request for help in testing a new system was in reality a test to see how gullible we are? Get out of here! We post on this forum to help people with real issues, not cater to your mind games and possibly build up your spam database.

So let me put it another way...

You come home at night, download your email and you have 60 "spam" emails from people you don't know, offering you things you're not the slightest bit interested in...that's bad right?

BUT
You come home and have 60 emails which over the next 4 weeks are going to save you £295 buying 15 things that you were going to buy over the next 4 weeks anyway!...AND...you get paid £6 just for receiving those 60 emails!!

Do you still see those 60 emails as spam OR if you got paid for each one you received would you wish that you'd received 600 and not just 60?

Let ME put it THIS way. Unsolicited E-mail is SPAM, and the last time I checked, the only one who stands to profit from it is the Spammer. All you've done is weaken the credibility of your opening statement:

I'm not looking to spam anyone or sell their data...

Now, if you have a LEGITIMATE database issue (NOTE: Related to Microsoft Access) for which you need our help, by all means, ask, and I'm sure that we will then be glad to help.

 

[CraigDolphin]

I'm looking for about 25-50 people to let me send them an email inviting them to a webform to see if the "process" works correctly from start to finish.

What i was trying to do was test people's willingness to supply their data and the answer is abundantly clear.

Caveat emptor. I don't much care for the mind games either.