Hello, everyone. I receive e-mail from LQ and I don't mind that at all; however, I have been receiving e-mail pertaining to 'book offers'. I decided to check out one of these offers and found that you must give a lot of 'personell' information to receive these offers. A lot more than I care to give.
I know that LQ probably gets some kind of reward for doing this; "It's just business, right?"
I'm just saying that you should consider the way information'
is being 'bought and sold' on the internet; and the "trust" that I, and others have in the proprietors of this website to protect them from 'giving-away' personal information which may (or may not) come back to harm them.
However you may feel about this issue, it is nevertheless, a very real concern for me "personally."
And I do not want LQ to recommend any more books to me which require anything more than an e-mail address. O.K?
I know that you can do this small thing for me without my having to 'unsubscribe' from LQ e-mail. As I do like LQ a lot!

Thanks for the feedback. This is why the "NOTE" very clearly indicates the requirements and makes clear this is a 3rd party offer. If you put "n/a" in each box, you'll still receive the book 100% free of charge.

--jeremy

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I didn't know that! Thank you Jeremy!

Well; I just tried to do it the way you said. All n/a and it will not allow you to do that. They must have gotten wise to the guise, heh?
Thanks for the response anyway, Jeremy. I know you have good intent, but maybe you should go to that site yourself and [U]see[U] for yourself that these people are just gathering very personal information about people; their job, what they do, where is their company, company phone# (or personl phone if an individual),..etc.
If I were a 'public site' maintainer(or owner) I would never suggest for the people who place their trust in me(my site) to go and submit this type of information to a 'Corperation!' For NO amount of money!
So, I must reiterate, please do not send 'me', personally any more referrals to any site that requires more than an e-mail address to complete a transaction.

Thanking you in Advance;
woodyb12

Even if I'd like to see some of these 'free' publications, I will not go any further than an email address either, they are not 'free' as in 'freedom' like Linux is.

Not even the one I saw for the Linux Journal!!!
(They want to be able to spam you too.)