DU this poll - about our "favorite" and not so media people

[question everything]

http://209.128.109.235/survey/s.phtml?sn=62&cid=102&rid=289563

[punpirate]

1. Odd that the poll ends...

... August 2004, and that it offers a chance to win a new iPod. Don't think you'll see results of this poll.

[loathesomeshrub]

5. When I finished it it said results would be posten in October

"PollingPoint conducts polls on the Internet about public affairs and other topics of general interest.


As a PollingPoint respondent, the information you provide helps write laws, frame news stories, plan campaigns, and analyze social questions.


The information you give us is absolutely confidential. As a PollingPoint respondent you are safe. We will never try to sell you anything or disclose your personal information to anyone at any time. Please read our privacy policy for more information."

[Spiffarino]

2. Their FAQ says the results will start showing up 8/2004

I've done a few of these things before, but I've never seen a result. I hope this doesn't turn out to be another email harvesting scam.

[juslikagrzly]

3. What do we know about PollingPoint?

is it legit?

[question everything]

11. I asked, several weeks ago and got this reply

(at least, I think that it was the same organization)

Thank you for taking the time to complete our recent OpinionPoint poll.

In response to your question, OpinionPoint conducts polls like these for a diverse group of clients, including news organizations, political organizations, scholars, businesses, and public policy institutes, to help them better understand public views about current affairs. OpinionPoint is a non-partisan polling organization, and we conduct polls for both Democrats and Republicans – liberal, moderate, and conservative. However, our clients do not always give us permission to identify them. Rest assured that when you answer a poll at OpinionPoint, your privacy is secure, and your responses do make a difference. We look forward to hearing from you again in future polls.

If you have any more questions or comments, please email me at [email protected] or visit our website at www.opinionpoint.com. Again, many thanks!

Sincerely,

Kelly Connor
Panel Manager
OpinionPoint
364 University Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94301

[loathesomeshrub]

4. Done

[salvorhardin]

6. I believe these people are spam harvesters

LartPuppy wrote:
> briant <briant at bayarea.net> wrote in message news:<40D0B115.6040500 at bayarea.net>...
>
>>Please remove IP range 209.128.78.0/24 and /23
>>and 209.128.64.0/23 from your blacklist.
>>Our client has removed the spammer from their network.
>><SNIP>
>
>
> While we (tinw) have the attention of somebody from bayarea.net, can
> you tell us why you have not yet terminated the spammers you are
> hosting at www.pollingpoint.com (209.128.109.239)? Their spam (sent
> via the notorious EMSEmail spam operation on OC3 Networks) was
> reported to your abuse address (not from this posting address) several
> days ago. If you would remove spammers *before* your space gets
> blacklisted, things would go a lot better for you.

From http://lists.sosdg.org/pipermail/sosdg-nanab/2004-June/002911.html

[John_H]

7. DU this poll? You mean help sombody create a marketing list, right?

Please.

[high density]

8. That looks like a link from

a crappy banner ad. They're probably harvesting email addresses to spam or something like that.

[salvorhardin]

9. Welcome to DU!

Happy posting.

[welshTerrier2]

10. i told them their poll was bullshit

they think everything comes down to TV personalities ... I told them the real issue was centralized corporate control of our mass media ...

i'm fairly confident they don't really give a damn what I think ...

what they're really trying to do is acquire demographic data to sell to the networks ...

[bklyncowgirl]

12. Motto of this story; read the entire thread before doing poll.

I just gave my address to a spam harvester. Damn.

Neat poll though.

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. Dan Rather and Jon Stewart

are the ONLY 2 to get Excellent marks from me. All the rest can go to hell.. :hi: I hope Rather comes out ahead on this poll.

[question everything]

14. Same here. Also Peter Jennings, after pinpointing Bush

yesterday.

And... didn't it feel good?