In message , ac <ac@main.me> writes
Mostly, what makes me very angry is the audacity
this does seem a reasonable list to ask for assistance on ... but being around to answer questions promptly would be appropriately polite surprisingly, I haven't seen the request on any other lists that are (a) relevant and (b) open -- perhaps they and their project team are not especially well connected in this space :( though there is a recent "anonymous" survey request about router configurations on the NANOG list
and then the "anonymous"
the Qualtrics platform is available over Tor (unlike some online survey platforms) so if you declined to answer the questions about which AS and company you were associated with then there is a substantial amount of anonymity available to you should you wish to use it...
and I can already see the "findings" of this research... based on random anonymous, hidden and secret inputs....
that is a concern -- this type of questionnaire pretty much never leads to high quality research directly (since there are significant biases in who might choose to give replies and there is scope for multiple responses from a single person, bots filling it in etc) nevertheless as a starting point for qualitative research (rather than quantitative) it can be very useful in allowing a researcher to identify general trends in the answers and -- importantly -- to help the researcher frame good research questions that are capable of being investigated in more detail as John Levine already noted, the questionnaire seems somewhat confused as to whether it cares about routing issues (bogon lists, the Spamhaus DROP list etc) or spam filtering (bad domains, phishing feeds, botnet IPs etc etc) it also asked if internally generated lists were used, but seemed curiously uninterested in anything other than if the answer to that was yes or no -- a missed opportunity I thought. -- richard Richard Clayton Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755