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From: spl@mcnc.org (Steve Lamont)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: minor Siggraph question
Message-ID: <4900@alvin.mcnc.org>
Date: 18 Jul 89 18:31:32 GMT
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Reply-To: spl@mcnc.org.UUCP (Steve Lamont)
Organization: Microelectronics Center of NC; RTP, NC
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In article <10698@watcgl.waterloo.edu> ksbooth@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Kelly Booth) writes:
 >In article <4896@alvin.mcnc.org> spl@mcnc.org.UUCP (Steve Lamont) writes:
 >>In article <60901@uunet.UU.NET> rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams) writes:
 >>
 >>Sure.  It's called *marketing*.  The information garnered from the badges is
 >>*salable* to vendors, market researchers, the NSA (want to join the NSA?  Just
 >
 >There are only two ways that anyone outside of ACM gets the information from
 >your registration form (which is where it is keyed in, the badges are just
 >copies of some of the information).
 >
 >(a) You give them your badge.
 >
 >(b) You check off the box on the registration form that says it is OK for
 >SIGGRAPH to release the information.

It isn't the information on the badge that is of interest.... it is what
sessions that I may attend or not attend that may be of interest to the
marketroids -- whether my name is attached to that information or not.  Are
you telling me that SIGGRAPH *isn't* planning on using all of that juicy
marketing and demographic information?  With or without my permission?
-- 
							spl
Steve Lamont, sciViGuy			EMail:	spl@ncsc.org
North Carolina Supercomputing Center	Phone: (919) 248-1120
Box 12732/RTP, NC 27709