Joseph wrote:
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I've had a question about this optional registration. What is the
benefit of registering? OK, two questions.... Will registering with
OO.o, will that put my eMail address on a list of "associates" or some
such friend company of OO.o where I'll be receiving eMail from companies
I have not requested mail from.
The current OpenOffice.org 2.4 release candidates and the upcoming OOo
2.4 version which are build by Sun Microsystems, Inc. Release
Engineering can be registered with Sun. The real benefit here is that
Sun and the OpenOffice.org Community (including you) can get more
accurate data about OpenOffice.org´s marketshare. Registration is tough
still optional of course. So far there´s only some very vague data about
OOo´s user base which we have here:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Market_Share_Analysis.
For registering these OpenOffice.org versions you would create a Sun
Online Account first and than register the OpenOffice.org version with
that account. Or if you have you can use an already existing Sun Online
Account, such as a Sun Developer Connection membership account ( see
http://developers.sun.com/) for registration.
Benefits of a Sun Developer Connection membership can be found here:
http://developers.sun.com/user_registration/whyregister.jsp
Creating such a Sun Online account does give you additional benefits
with Sun such as access on the Sun websites to special offers and
discounts for Sun products and services.
While creating the Sun Online Account you can additionally opt-in to
receive newsletters from Sun. But this is an explicit opt-in only. The
default is that no checkbox for newsletters is selected when creating
the Sun Online Account.
Sun´s Privacy Policy can be found here:
http://www.sun.com/privacy/
There is also a link to that policy page on the registration webservice
page which you can get to by calling Help / Registration in newer
(starting with current 2.4 Release Candidates) OpenOffice.org versions
build by Sun Microsystems.
In addition to the registration there is a link to the OpenOffice.org
UserSurvey on the webpage you will get to when calling Help /
Registration. The Data collected on the UserSurvey helps us to estimate
needs of OpenOffice.org users and get a feeling about their environment
etc. in order to direct future OpenOffice.org development work which you
can thus indirectly influence by filling out the survey. Every question
on the User Survey is optional and the User Survey can be be done
completely anonymous.
Older OpenOffice.org Versions will just show this survey only instead of
a registration page when Help/Registration is being called.
At the end of the survey you can opt in to the offer: "I'm interested in
complementary solutions for OpenOffice.org and thus agree to being
contacted via email by the OpenOffice.org community including the major
corporate contributors with information about new free and commercial
offerings related to OpenOffice.org." But again this is an explicit
opt-in only and the default is that this checkbox is not checked.
In addition to registering the product you can register as a user on the
http://www.openoffice.org website this gives you the benfit of actually
becoming an offical member of our great community ;-) and gets you
access to the bug tracking system we use. Additionally you have the
benfit of being able to use an <username>@openoffice.org email Address
for communication in our mailing lists and bug tracking system. A link
to the Policies and Terms of use for the OpenOffice.org website is in
the footer of almost every webpage on OpenOffice.org including the main
page. However you can of course subscribe and unsubscribe to our mailing
lists which you apparently already did. Our Mailing Lists are archived
on the web at various locations including OpenOffice.org´s own website
but also others which eg. offer gateways to news systems for mailing
lists or similar. It´s theoretical possible that there could be evil
"SPAMMERs" there outside which are using such mailing list archives for
collecting email addresses to send their spam to. If you use an
<username>@openoffice.org email address in your communication with our
mailing lists which you would get by registering as a community member
you can at least differentiate between spam send to your regular email
address and SPAM send to you via your openoffice.org email address. Well
I know this doesn´t help much.
Kind regards,
Bernd Eilers
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Personally, I don't care how it's written in, if I don't personally
request or give my personal ok to a particular company or organization
to send me eMail, then I don't want it and it's spam.
I've yet to see an agreement that said anything like "In registering,
these sponsors will be given permission to eMail you. If you do not
wish their eMails, click here: [] If you get their eMails, and wish to
unsubscribe, you can do so by contacting that company.:"
this-company.com
that-company.com
Spam-inc.com
nomail.com
However, I have gotten a program and afterward gotten many spams I knew
nothing about, from which I could NOT unsubscribe.
If I don't personally and specifically request a particular company's
mail, I will mark it as spam or junk and get shed of it.
Again, as I've mentioned above, What is the benefit of registering? OK,
two questions.... Will registering with OO.o, will that put my eMail
address on a list of "associates" or some such friend company of OO.o
where I'll be receiving eMail from companies I have not requested mail
from.
OK, I'm done with the soap box. NEXT!
Joseph
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