pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (12/18/90)
Index of TidBITS#34/10-Dec-90
Reviews/10-Dec-90
Scores Author Charged - Here's your chance to show your
feelings about viruses. Write to the nice police officer
mentioned in the article and complain about Scores or any
other viruses.
Christmas Things - A few notes about various things,
including a TidBITS discussion folder on America Online.
Last Chance Survey - Yup, the last time you have to see this
survey. Please fill it out (it's a great excuse for copy and
paste) and send it back to us. Thanks.
Expo Expectations - A few rumors and educated guesses about
some stuff that might appear at Macworld Expo in San
Francisco in January. Our money is on a color Pivot from
Radius, with System 7.0 as the dark horse.
Last Chance Survey
Well, this is it. This is the last week that our survey will
be included in the issue. If you've responded already,
please, we implore you, delete this item. If you're seeing
this for the first time or you haven't yet gotten up the
gumption or initiative to respond, we'd appreciate it if you
did. Don't worry about the space this is taking up since it's
been a slow week. We're not holding out any good news to
include the survey this last time. As far as we can tell at
the moment, we're looking at about a 3% return rate. That may
be good by normal survey standards, but it seems a tad low to
us. So be abnormal and tell us about yourself.
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1. They're not getting much harder. In what town and country
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long as you credit us.)
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(For the following questions, 1 is low, 10 is high, and only
integers exist)
7. On a scale of 1-10, how knowledgeable are you as a Mac
user, if a DOS user who has never seen a Mac is 0 on the
scale and Andy Hertzfeld is 10?
8. On a scale of 1-10, how knowledgeable are you as a
HyperCard user/author?
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to related articles?
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18. What's your favorite color?
That's 21 questions including the sub-questions, so we'll
stop now. Give yourself 1 point for each question answered.
Scores of more than 11 win. Scores of less than 3 indicate
that you probably won't return the survey, so answer a few
more questions and then send it in. At most it's a few
minutes and a stamp and we guarantee never to do telephone
surveys (or to sell your name to mailing list brokers). Also,
we will share the results (especially the statistical
significance of question 18) in TidBITS. Thanks for the
enthusiasm, it keeps us going.
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