[WikiEN-l] Re: Fwd: A survey about Wikipedia

Fri May 27 08:04:42 UTC 2005

Tony Sidaway wrote:
> You miss my point, I think.  This is come chap using the name of a
> prestigious university to perform a "survey", even successfully exploiting
> the goodwill of Wikipedia editors to have information about this survey
> published on our mailing list. All we're told is that this is part of a
> "non-commercial cross-cultural research project" and we're supposed to go
> to a non-secure http site registered in Michigan (not, aas far as I'm
> aware, part of Israel) to fill it in.

The _domain_ is registered in Michigan. Check where the actual _site_ 
is, you might be surprised. (But I'm not claiming it's in Israel, either.)
(Traceroute is your friend.)

-- 
John R. Owens
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