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SD4 wrote:I took the survey. It did not ask for any personal info, and it seemed to mainly be geared towards market research for selling the ad spaces in NRA's magazines. It asked a lot of questions about brands, prices, preferences, spending habits, etc. It looked like a pretty harmless survey to me.

nitrogen wrote:Wow. It looks legit. The IP that the message was received from your your mailserver is the IP owned by nranews.org.

And, based on the way the URL was done, it might be uniquely identified; and maybe even personally identifiable. The "Unsubscribe" URL is nearly the same as the "take the survey" URL.

Most likely, this is just an oversight based on the software that NRA uses to run their contact management; and I doubt that anything shady is going on.

NRA really does need to get with the times though, and be careful with these kinds of things. Geeks like me tend to get upset when companies misuse (accidentally or on purpose) personal information. If you read geek blogs like Slashdot, or slightly lesser geek blogs like The Consumerist, you'll see just how upset some people get.