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yes, I suport the idea of a survey. Milo V. Anderson Box 417 Angwin, CA 94508 VOICE 707 965-2508 EMAIL [log in to unmask] 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 > **************************************************************************** > ************************************* > Charles T. Meyer > Madison, WI > > [log in to unmask] > **************************************************************************** > ************************************ >