Zoomerang Survey?

[Harry Hoffman]

Redhat took the emails from the email used for their up2date service.

I know this because the survey I filled out had a orig_to of the contact
email for our satellite server and not my personal email.

--Harry

Barry Brimer wrote:
>> Did any of us opt in to any sort of list to request that we be pinged for
>> Zoomerang surveys?  Especially since the survey invitation includes an
>> "opt out" link?
>>
>> I certainly hope that Red Hat wouldn't stoop to simply giving out our
>> email addresses, whether because we're on their listservs or because
>> we're
>> associated, in some way, as users of their products, without our express
>> permission.
>>
>> I would also hope that they wouldn't stoop to sneakwrap type tactics,
>> wherein they would change their policies, regarding the use of our email
>> addresses, with no appropriate notice or prior request for permission.
> 
> I don't think Red Hat did anything sneaky.  I think our email addresses
> were lifted from the mailing list archives by this third party.  For the
> record, I did not sign up for any surveys.
> 
> I have received surveys from Red Hat in the past, but they were clearly
> from Red Hat, and in a different format.  These messages were sent to
> the appriopriate email address on my Red Hat customer account or my Red
> Hat certification account.  The email received yesterday was sent to my
> mailing list account.  I do not suspect that Red Hat had any
> participation in this survey.
>