yes, I suport the idea of a survey.
 
 
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On Sat, 5 Aug 1995, Charles Meyer wrote:
 
> Gary,
>
> I was the one who asked  the question originally and I thank you for the
> information.  I suppose we could give respondants a choice to send direct
> E-mail to Barb or myself - which allows one person in the group other than
> the sender to potentially know the source,  use the server in Finland or I
> could give my mail address and people could send responses without a return
> address.  That seems to me to answer the confidentiality issue.
>
> Now the other issue is if we set this up as a (nonscientific) survey of the
> group in order to get some order of magnitude of Sexual problems in
> Parkinson's patients is there enough interest in the subject for me to
> develop a survey and will there be enough respondents to make it worthwhile?
> Responses indicating lack of problems would be important, as well as at
> least an acknowledgement from caregivers and other individuals without PD of
> their status( i.e not completing the questionaire) for statistical
> purposes(% of group responding. )
>
> I would like others ideas about the survey including content and level of
> interest.
> If I get enough interest I will try to put something together over the next
> week.  If you do support the survey but have no particular comments to
> share-please drop me a 1 sentence direct e-mail note indicating your
> support- or reservations.  If I get at least 40-50 positive responses I will
> go ahead with it.
>
> Charlie
>
>
> > Re: anonymous mail for delicate subjects
>
> > The anonymous mail server (probably the one you spoke of): anon.penet.fi
> > has been around for some time, and is probably the most frequently used
> > anonymous mail server on the Internet for posting anonymously.  In this
> > respect, it's fairly "respectable" and I would say it's pretty secure.
> >
> > Unlike sending mail to you, Barb, and having you strip out the headers,
> > the attraction of using a real "anonymous mail server" might be that the
> > anonymotization (is that a word?) is done automatically, so there's no one
> > who actually sees the sender's name in conjunction with the message - it's
> > stripped out automatically.
> >
> > In any case, for those interested, they can send a blank message to:
> > [log in to unmask]
> > You don't need to put any subject for the mail message either.  Just a
> > blank message to that address will get you all the information.
> >
> > You'll receive a message with anything you need to know to send mail
> > anonymously.  Sending mail anonymously is easy - you just send the message
> > to the server in Finland and at the top of the message include the real
> > address of who you want the message to go to in a special line that looks
> > like:  X-Anon-To: real.addressee.here
> >
> > For added protection, you can use a password to prevent others from
> > sending mail as you, like if you step away from your computer.
> >
> > You'll also receive in the help message some good warnings about the
> > security of email, as were your warnings, Barbara.
> >
> > Email is not secure. Email is not secure. Email is not secure.  But
> > neither is postal mail, nor anything else short of speaking to someone
> > face to face.  On the other hand, there aren't lots of folks out there
> > with nothing better to do than spy on email, and those that do are pretty
> > pathetic individuals anyway - I doubt they'll be looking for mail of
> > Parkinson's folks just waiting to blackmail you.  Keep things in
> > perspective, but understand the inherent risks.
> >
> > Anyway, anonymous mail is available for those who might find that a more
> > comfortable way of remaining fully anonymous.  Just try not to threaten
> > the President  :-)
> >
> > -- garyZ
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