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<div><font color="#000000">Dear AOIR colleagues,</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">I would like to invite you to participate
in a new study on email user names and anonymity. The call for
participants and information on the study is below. I would also like
to ask you to forward our call for participants to other lists,
groups, or individuals that you think might be appropriate. We are
trying to get a sample of world-wide English speakers to complete our
Web survey, and so the international and interdisciplinary nature of
AOIR made this list the perfect place to start our
publicity.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Thank you very much for your help and
interest, and please feel free to contact me if you have any
questions.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">-Kris Markman</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Doctoral Student</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">The University of Texas at
Austin</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">jho-kmm@mail.utexas.edu or </font>
ut2003email_survey@earthlink.net</div>
<div><font color="#000000">survey URL:<font size="-1"><u>
https://www.hostedware.com/secure/hs/takesurvey.asp?c=2003emailsurvey</u
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<div><font color="#000000">P.S. I'd also love to get any feedback on
the design and layout of the survey</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">You are invited to participate in an online
study of email addresses. The purpose of this study is to gain an
understanding into how people personalize their email addresses,
manage multiple email addresses/accounts, and experience anonymity
when using these addresses. We would like to invite all
English-speaking email users age 18 and over worldwide to complete our
survey, and we eventually hope to have 400-500 respondents
globally.</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">This survey is being conducted by
researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and has been approved
by the Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human
Subjects, Clarke A. Burnham, Ph.D., Chair. Questions about this
research may be directed to the chair at: The University of
Texas at Austin, Office of Research Support & Compliance, P.O. Box
7426, Austin, TX, 78713.</font></div>
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If you choose to participate it will take approximately 10 - 30
minutes to complete the survey depending on the number of email
addresses you have. All of your answers will be kept confidential by
the researchers. The information we collect will be used for academic
research purposes<b> only</b> and will<b> not</b> be used by or sold
to any commercial entities.</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">To take the survey, please go to:<font
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https://www.hostedware.com/secure/hs/takesurvey.asp?c=2003emailsurvey<br
>
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</u></font>Thank your for your time and participation, and please feel
free to forward this URL to any other individuals or groups you think
may be interested. You should also feel free to contact us if you have
any other questions about this project.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Sincerely,</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div>"Anonymity and Identity Management through Email Usernames"
Study<br>
Primary Investigators: Kris M. Markman and Craig R. Scott<br>
The University of Texas at Austin</div>
<div>Department of Communication Studies</div>
<div>ut2003email_survey@earthlink.net<br>
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