None of which is in any way relevant to this newsgroup; nor is
advertising of any kind welcome in this or in most other newsgroups.

 We would be grateful if you would go away and die a slow, horrible,
painful death, and never pollute this or any other newsgroup again.  We
don't like spammers here.

We get hit with a *LOT* of scams, spams, and "surveys". Many if not all of
them are collecting marketing data to sell to spammers and scammers.

Since your questionpro.com site is not a university site, but a professional
survey site, you're probably lying about the university project or being
misleading about who's buying your data.

I believe you. Unfortunately I am not a UK resident, therefore I do not
qualify to respond to your survey. However, you received one
inappropriate response and two follow ups. Since hundreds (or more) read
this I would not get discouraged. It's typical News Group ranting. Now
having said this I will probably get flamed.
Out of curiosity I did take (but did not finish) your survey. Personally
I did not find anything wrong with it. However, how did you construct
the sentences in your survey? The structure differs from your style in
these postings? Did your supervisor help you with this?

Sorry about that. Some of our members do wildly overdo it. But we see *so
man* scammers, spammers, and frauds popping up that we've gotten touchy, to
say the least, about another vaguely suspicious survey or web site push.

Most universities these days have web site support, perfectly capable of
handling a survey form. The ghods know *I've* set up a few such things as
part of day-to-day systems work. The use of a commercial survey provider,
who may not have signed onto the university agreements for keeping medical
information confidential or for human experimentation used by the
universities *I* know for doing survey and human studies leave me suspicious
that you are, in fact scamming in some way.

Being part of an "international" group also describes NONI JUICE pyramid
schemes, Betty Martini's anti-aspartame crusade, and various email lottery
scams. And I'm sure we're happy to provide you with vocabulary lessons in
more positive ways: If you've used Usenet and email as part of your work or
hobbies up until now, I'm really surprised you haven't heard the word
"scam".

Having had awful experiences before is a completely valid reason to be very
suspicious of and reject your request to participate in a study. It's even a
good reason to say "you look like a fraud". The nasty language of some of
the people who post here is unfortunate, and I think corrupts their message.
If you're not a scammer or spammer of some sort, I'm sorry about it.

You're in Glasgow? I'm startled you haven't heard these words. Try talking
up the tradesman in your area, janitors, plumbers, etc., to help expand your
street vocabulary, and drinking with the international students to expand
your more educated vocabulary.

Wait: strike that. Reverse it: the tradesmen often have a much more refined
vocabulary than the students.

You don't get out much, do you?

 I don't apologize to spammers.