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From: gnome@oliveb.UUCP (Gary)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Request for sexuality research participants
Message-ID: <52@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 14:06:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  2 14:06:51 1986
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> As a psychologist, I was particularly offended and suspicious of the above
> request in a net.general posting.  If legitimate research is being done,
> especially in a somewhat sensitive area, the researcher gives his academic
> qualifications and the formal sponsorship of his study.  The posting in
> net.general, therefore, roused doubt in my mind about whether or not it was
> really research or whether it was some other less savory activity.

What unsavory things were you thinking of?
The survey can't be used to build a mailing list (no names/addresses).
The only thing I could see is that it could "ruin the good name of USENET".
I'd find that hard to believe...


Gary