Re: you're priceless

[Don Smith <dasmith at rotse2_physics.lsa.umich.edu>]

That site made me very nervous.  Here it asks you to put in all kinds of
critical demographic data, including your email address, and then provides some
figure, with no explanation I could see for an algorithm as to how that figure
was derived.  Now, they could be on the up and up, but if they were
spam-collectors, they could easily make a database of that information and sell
it to advertisers who could then tailor-target you for spam emails.  I mean, I
can't think of any other reason why they would insist on getting your email
address rather than just displaying the answer on your web browser.  Does
anyone know anything about the people who set this up?  I'm usually a pretty
trusting guy, but this just seems way too fishy to me.

-- 
Don Smith                          Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment
donaldas at umich_edu                                http://xte.mit.edu/~dasmith/

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are
to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile,
but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt
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