Zoomerang Survey?

[Barry Brimer]

Quoting Harry Hoffman <hhoffman at ip-solutions.net>:

> 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.

In my case, the email address used was only that of the mailing list.  I do not
have a satellite server, but the email address that is used for RHN
registration was not used.