February 11th, 2010

A sense of the term anonymous with which I had previously been unfamiliar

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

I was filling out one of those online satisfaction surveys, and in the introduction, it reassured me that

This survey is anonymous.

The first question on the survey:

Enter the support request (SR) number below.

Yeah, because they’ll never be able to trace the support request number back to me.

(I suspect that the reason for this contradiction is that the organization that wanted to conduct the survey used a site that supports either anonymous surveys or tracked surveys, and they opted for the anonymous survey for whatever reason—maybe it’s cheaper?—but they actually wanted a tracked survey, so they made the tracking number part of the survey itself.)

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Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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