Some of you have expressed understandable caution in respect of the survey request from Juan Du. I contacted the Uni today, and received the reply below. I hope this may be of assistance to you in deciding whether to participate. Regards Paul Barrett CFT user -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Jones [mailto:JONES_J@WMGMAIL.wmg.warwick.ac.uk] Sent: 18 June 2005 19:53 To: Paul and Barbara Barrett Cc: Juan Du Subject: RE: Jaun Du Thank you for your response Yes is a legitimate post. The Juan is a masters degree project student undertaking a course in e-business management (http://www.wmg.warwick.ac.uk/PagEd-index-topic_id-3-page_id-35.phtml) here at the University of Warwick (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/) in the UK. You can find me on the faculty list at the above university at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/people/ar/ As part of this course the students have to prepare a dissertation on a topic related to their degree subject. Juan Du is studying the use of e-business in the genealogy market. Her study is to look at a number of web sites and examine the business models that they use (effectively identifying how they are making money) as part of this she is undertaking a survey of web site users ( i.e. genealogists) to see what they think about the various sites and what their requirements are. If you are willing to complete a survey, please c0ontact Juan du directly on either J.Du.2@warwick.ac.uk or the address she gave in her posting. Regards. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeff Jones, Senior Research Fellow, Warwick Manufacturing Group, School of Engineering, University of Warwick, Coventry, West Midlands, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom. Work - Tel: +44 (0)2476 572616, Fax - +44 (0)2476 524307 Home - Tel: +44 (0)1509 557649, Mobile - +44 (0)771 7437987 Email - J.A.Jones@Warwick.ac.uk. Web - http://www.quality.warwick.ac.uk/ Web - http://www.remm.org -----Original Message----- From: Paul and Barbara Barrett [mailto:paul.barrett@hornton.org.uk] Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 5:43 PM To: comp-sci@dcs.warwick.ac.uk; J Jones Subject: Jaun Du We have received a request for help on a survey from Juan Du. Please could you verify the legitimacy of this request? [quote] If you have any questions about the survey, you may contact Juan Du using the above contact detail or my project supervisor Jeffrey Jones at J.A.Jones@warwick.ac.uk <mailto:J.A.Jones@warwick.ac.uk> . [unquote] Paul and Barbara Barrett paul.barrett@hornton.org.uk -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.8/22 - Release Date: 17/06/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.8/22 - Release Date: 17/06/2005