Am Mi, 2004-08-11 um 15.55 schrieb Herb Peyerl:
> On Aug 11, 2004, at 7:48 AM, Ian Zagorskih wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 11 August 2004 20:46, Ian Zagorskih wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 11 August 2004 20:58, Frauke Lehmann wrote:
> >>> Sorry for any cross-posting!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> My name is Frauke Lehmann and I'm writing my master thesis about the
> >>> social formation of free software/open source (FS/OS) developers. A
> >>> questionnaire is one part of my research - besides interviews and
> >>> observations.
> >>
> >> Maybe i'm getting it wrong but queez about "File System/Operating 
> >> System
> >> developers and their place in the society" mmmm.. It sounds quite 
> >> original
> >> :) Or what OS/FS do mean ?
> >>
> >
> >  Sorry for stupid question, just found "free software/open source". 
> > Maybe it
> > should be started with capital letters :)
> >
> 
> Maybe it shouldn't be on 'tech-kern' which is completely the wrong 
> place for it.  It should also be noted that I've seen fairly regular 
> occurences of "students wanting to survey FS/OS developers for their 
> masters thesis" in the last few months.  Maybe it's a new way of 
> harvesting email addresses?  Or maybe this is the latest fashion in 
> Masters Theses...
> 
> 
> 
> 

The username ~egal ( German for "does not matter" or such ) is odd, too.
But the page itsself is very good if that is really a fake ... Tho the
Free University of Berlin surely gives their students mail-accounts so
they don't need free webmail a la gmx.de ... :)