From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel B. and Rich W., Co-Moderators)
Subject: ENCLOSED: **READER SURVEY**
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Reply-To: survey@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:52:12 GMT

Please email your completed survey to: survey@pencil.cs.missouri.edu .
With most news readers, the 'reply' function will do this.
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(Please replace this line with your complete email address)

    Are you a reader of ACTIV-L or of misc.activism.progressive (MAP)?

(Please replace this line with a "MAP" or "ACTIV-L" string)

    All following questions apply to the mailing-list or newsgroup in
    question.

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    For how long have you been subscribed?

(Please replace this line by years in decimals, e.g. 1.5 for one and a half)

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    How many hours per day or per week to you spend reading?

(Please use format "2 D" or "10 W" etc)

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    To the nearest 10%, what percent of the articles do you

    a) Skip
    b) Skim
    c) Read and discard
    d) File away (presumarly includes "read", later if not right away)
    e) Pass on to others on the net
    f) Pass on to other without access to the electronic nets

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f)

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TOPICS:

    Latin America ; Gay/Lesbian ; Women/Sexism ; Health Care/AIDS;
    Africa/3rd World; Mid-East/Gulf; Labor; Environment; FBI/CIA;
    [other (fill in)]

    Which would you like to see more of? [of the list of what we actually post]

[List Topics on this line please]

    Which (if any) is there too much of? [which is a superset of above list]]

[Put answer on this line (ie in place of this line) please]

    Which topic (if any) are we not covering at all but should be?

[Enter any suggested topics on this line please]

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Comments on overall balance OF TOPICS
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    Consider the following four categories of posts:

    (1)   News ("U.S. Invades <fill in blank>" ; "Bush Drops Out of Race")

    (2)  Info (Chart with footnotes shows military spending, infant
                mortality, AIDS cases in U.S., versus other countries, etc)

    (3) Resources (Listings of Media or Washington addresses, telephone
                numbers, fax #s; same info for activist groups,
            publications, videos, socially responsible investment, etc)

    (4)  Analysis (Self expalantory, although a FAIR report will have
        some "News", a Chomksy article much footnoted "Info" etc)

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    Please rate the importance of each of these to you on a 0-5 scale

    0 = not useful at all
    1 = occassinally useful
    2 = sometimes useful
    3 = often useful
    Plus a possible 1 point if "very useful" (same frequency)
    Plus a possible 2 points if "critical"/"extremely useful" (same frequency)

(1): 
(2): 
(3): 
(4): 

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    Do you know how to use the Automatic Archiver? Are the following
    instructions clear enough if not?

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        To get a file named FILE NAME from the
        archiver (files are two words  separa-
        ted by a space), send the 1-line message

        GET FILE NAME ACTIV-L

        to: LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET
        [or: LISTSERV@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU]
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        Use GET with the file ACTIV-L ARCHIVE for a listing of
        files available with the GET command.

    e.g., send GET ACTIV-L ARCHIVE ACTIV-L to LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET to be
    emailed the index of archived files.


["Knew" or "Now Know" or "Still Unclear" on this line please]

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    Have you used the Automatic Archiver?
    Many times? Recently?

["No" or "Yes often" or "Yes Sometimes" on this line please]
["In past week" or "In past Month" or "in past 4 months" or "not recently"]

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    Do you know how to ftp? If so:

    -- do you know how to ftp files on pencil? (answer:
    "ftp pencil.cs.missouri.edu" login as "anonymous" then do
    "cd LOOKEE_HERE/map")

["Knew" this or else "Now Know" or else "Still unclear" or "no FTP access"]

    -- do you know how to ftp from PeaceNet and EcoNet a list of their
    conferences? (answer: "ftp igc.org" and login as "anonymous")

[Same reply type here please as previous question]

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    Use of Activist Resources we Publicize:

    Have you ever --

    Subscribed to a magazine or newspaper?

[Yes/No; if "Yes" please use format: "Yes: Z ; Nation"]

    Ordered a pamphlet? (e.g. American Friends Service Committee)

[Yes/No; if "Yes" please use format: "Yes: AFSC"]

    Ordered a report (e.g. Amnesty International)?

[Yes/No; if "Yes" please use format: "Yes: Amnesty"]

    Bought a Video?

[Yes/No; if "Yes" please use format: "Yes: Eco; Iran-Contra"]

    Bought a Video and arranged a screening at your campus/local group?
    [Use the GET command (see below for examples or see bottom for
    instructions) with VIDEOS RESOURCE and/or AI VIDEOS and/or
    AFSC CATALOG (see the sections on videos). We will also make the
    entire "Friday Night Videos" files availalbe by ftp]

[Yes/No; If "Yes" please enter moderately brief description on next
lines followed by a blank line to separate from the next question]

    Bought an audio-cassette?

[Yes/No]

    Bought an audio-cassette and used it in a group setting?
    [Use the GET command (see below for examples or see bottom for
    instructions) with CHOMSKY TAPES and/or with AUDIOVID PARENTI ; the
    former includes many other speakers besides Chomsky@Athena.MIT.EDU
    (outdatted file name) from the Alternative Radio cassette catalog]

[Yes/No; If "Yes" please enter moderately brief description on next
lines followed by a blank line to separate from the next question]


    Have you encouraged your local radio stations (Public Radio especially
    but not necessarily only Public Radio) to carry Alternative Radio (or
    "Radio Free Maine" or "Prevailing Winds" etc) tape programs?

[Yes/No; If "Yes" please enter moderately brief description on next
lines followed by a blank line to separate from the next question]


    [Also wanted: someone in charge of periodically updating our file of
    the Alternative Radio Catalog as new items are added to it; ditto
    someone for the AFSC Peace Education Resource Library and other online
    resources which need updating]

[Please Email harelb@math.cornell.edu if interested]

    Are the Friday Night Videos and "Alternative Radio Presents" in a
    useful format, and a useful selection? Do you have any ideas of other
    additional features which would be beneficial?

[Please use 0 to 5 from "not useful" to "extremely useful"]

    Contacted Speak Out! or other speakers bureaus or speakers?

[Yes/No]

    Contacted Speak Out! or other speakers bureaus or speakers and
        arranged for a speaker at yoru campus, workplace, place or
        worship, etc? 
    [Use the GET command (see below for examples or see bottom for
    instructions) with SPEAKOUT BROCHURE and/or with SPEAKOUT BIOS for
    more about the Speakout! speakers bureau]

[Yes/No; If "Yes" please enter moderately brief description on next
lines followed by a blank line to separate from the next question]

    Bought, or look up in the library, or encouraged your library or
    bookstore to get, a book?

[Yes/No]

    Used any of these in a special/creative way or in a particular
    project? (e.g. in a speech you gave, a pamphlet you made up, in
    organizing a group, mailng to the media or Congress/White House, etc?)

[Yes/No; If "Yes" please enter moderately brief description on next
lines followed by a blank line to separate from the next question]

    Contacted or joined a group or organization you heard of online?

[Yes/No; If "Yes" please enter moderately brief description on next
lines followed by a blank line to separate from the next question]

    Called or Faxed or writtern to Congress/White House/Media?

[Yes/No]

    Used a FAIR report on media-bias when doing so?

[Yes/No]

    Used (what specific) info you read online?

[Please enter description on a few lines followed by a blank line to
separate from next question]

    (Send the 1-line email GET ACTIV-L ARCHIVE ACTIV-L to the address
    LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET for a copy of a listing of files available with
    the GET command and see "Media" section for FAIR reports)

    Been encouraged to join your local credit union, or co-op, or move
    some of your money/investments to one of the socially conscious
    investment organizations? (Send 1-line email consisting of
    GET SOCIAL INVEST Activ-L@Umcvmb.Bitnet-L to the address
    LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET for a copy of a file list some. In place of the
    two words SOCIAL INVEST try also ABOUYT CO-OPS and also CREDIT UNIONS)

[Please enter description on a few lines followed by a blank line to
separate from next question]

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    Do you have an IGC (PeaceNet or EcoNet) account?

["Yes" or "No" ; if "No" please skip the followup question]

    If so, are you willing to be formally or informatlly "in charge" of
    forwarding to ACTIV-L/MAP from a set of IGC conferences?

["Willing" or "Not now" please]

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    Do you have a scanner?

[Yes/No]

    Are you willing to type in articles?

[Yes/No]

    Are you willing to be (snail-)mailed disks with articles and email us
    the articles? (if so, what type of PC do you have? IBM clone? Mac? Of
    what type?)

[Yes/No on this line; if Yes please use format "Yes: IBM XT"]

    Are you willing to regularly type in Calendars or Events, and/or
    advertised lectures, conferences, books, videos, etc, alone or in a
    group, from your favorite mag/paper, be it Nation, In These Times, Z
    Magazine, or whatever?

[Yes/No; if "Yes" please use format: "Yes: Nation"]

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    Do you know an organization, publication (E.g. Nation, In These Times,
    etc) person, etc, well enough to be a "contact person"? And spend some
    time (how much?) as intermediary? (for: getting them online; getting
    permiss. to post articles; possibly working with them on projects
    (e.g. Daniels pres. campaign; PSNs (Progressive Students Newspapers)
    contacts to set up a network of these which would take the IGC/MAP
    "feed" of info. etc))

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	[Special section; reply directly to us:]

    Are you willing to be a contact person who "scans" the UseNet for
    references to MAP.  We [Rich and Harel] are swamped and rarely
    read newsgroups at all, and Rich reads to a rather limited extent.
    So there are charges against MAP somestimes that need to be
    rebutted but we miss, or a less malevolent person posts saying
    they don't like something but I don't see it and they don't know
    they should email to me so I don't reply, or just a question, etc.
    This would include news.groups and news.admin, and
    alt.activism,talk.politics.misc,and a few others.


    TECHNICAL: A Unix Expert? Know Emacs and either know or are willing to
    learn (or be a "gofer" who asks the Net) about Emacs Lisp?


    DISK SPACE: Have some spare Megabytes for backup or actual storage for
    MAP/ACTIV-L stuff? We're looking for a unix-based archive-server
    since the one we're now using is running out of space.



    Can you help with MAP's Limited Propagation?

    While MAP's readership has steadily grown, our "propagation" or % of
    machine which carry misc.activism.progressive has remained fairly low.
    As a result, articles are sometimes never received on the west coast of
    the US.

    If we can find a well-connected host on the west coast which is
    willing to take a map feed directly from mont@cs.missouri.edu, we'd be
    better off.

    Well connected means that they are closely connected (1 hop away) to a
    central usenet host like ucbvax (Direct feed means an actual nntp
    tcp/ip connection between the two hosts)


[Please reply by email to harelb@math.cornell.edu *and*
rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu if you answered "Yes" to any of the
questions in this last section (after the last " - - - -")]

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