Za Noodle
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One of the questions in the survey is "Do you live in the USA". Can I presume, therefore, that anyone who answers 'no' will be automatically excluded from winning the iPad?
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Re: Complete our survey for the chance to win an iPad
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Corkcampbell
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info clearly said they can ship the iPad anywhere in the world. I guess using that logic, anyone using non-USA spelling would also be disqualified.
Za Noodle
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My bad, I missed that. I think your assessment of my logic is flawed though. That said, this is a fairly common method of filtering entrants into surveys like this simply because licensing agreements prohibit the shipping of certain products across borders.
MihaS
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If they state that every amateur photographer can partake in this survey and have a chance to win an IPad, filtering out non US citizens vould be fraud, wouldn't it?
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Simon Joinson
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i think you may have missed the point that the idea the prize is only available to US respondents was a 'guess' (otherwise known as baseless speculation). If you actually take the survey it clearly states the iPad will be sent anywhere in the world.
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JulesJ
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What survey? in the usual fashion of forum posters, absolutely no information has been given in this thread as to what survey anyone is talking about.
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JulesJ
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the survey thanks for the specific info Noodle. Are you talking about the survey that just came with my new washing machine perhaps? Try to be helpful to everyone who reads your OP, we are not all psychic. And why does your Subject line start with Re ? This should only happen after a second and subsequent post.
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David Rosser
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Well as this is the news discussion forum you have a clue there - it must be on DPReview news page (as I understand it this forum is for discussion of items on DPReview's News page) and indeed here it is
http://www.dpreview.com/news/1008/10082621PMAsurvey.asp
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JulesJ
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It wasn't obvious for me, thanks for the three embedded link, easy to find eh? But still I make my point about subject lines.
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David Rosser
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Always willing to help 
By the way don't believe the "it only takes 5 minutes" it takes a heck of a lot longer than that ;-)
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Knocker221
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Well I read it as
"REFERENCE the news artical about the survey!--"
Whats wrong with that?
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"REFERENCE the news artical about the survey!--"
Whats wrong with that?
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JulesJ
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Click on any forum and look down at the Subject lines that are listed and that you can choose from. all these should just be the subject that the posters has named his thread. Hopefully, but not always it will give you an idea of what the thread is about.
Click on any of these threads and look at the subsequent threads that have been posted since the first one and you will see that they all begin with Re: All the ones that do tell you that they are following up the OPs original post. Th Re helps you understand that without having to think to hard. some times someone will change the course of the thread and put in a new Subject line. this will not have Re in front of it and seeing the absence of the Re tells you this. It's all very clever and stops posters from having to think too hard even if they don't realize it.
i hope that you now realize that starting a new thread with the Re is pointless. Not illegal, but it just shows that the poster is unaware of how threads universally work.
I hope this helps.
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Click on any of these threads and look at the subsequent threads that have been posted since the first one and you will see that they all begin with Re: All the ones that do tell you that they are following up the OPs original post. Th Re helps you understand that without having to think to hard. some times someone will change the course of the thread and put in a new Subject line. this will not have Re in front of it and seeing the absence of the Re tells you this. It's all very clever and stops posters from having to think too hard even if they don't realize it.
i hope that you now realize that starting a new thread with the Re is pointless. Not illegal, but it just shows that the poster is unaware of how threads universally work.
I hope this helps.
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Knocker221
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I am in total agreement with you but the "English" use of RE (Ref) is Ok and in this case fine it's just that it conflicts with the forum methodology which if you are going to pick people up on (in cases like this) will just keep them from posting what could be good constructive comments/discussion points.
If you look at the list of discussion points you will see that at this moment in time there are several starting in "RE -"
I have been reading a lot from this site over the past few days and there is lot of people telling others off for very petty things
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If you look at the list of discussion points you will see that at this moment in time there are several starting in "RE -"
I have been reading a lot from this site over the past few days and there is lot of people telling others off for very petty things
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Framer
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Simple, an iPad is a tool used by a lot of professional photographers.
Joseph S Wisniewski
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That's a side effect of the dpReview bug that I was telling you about in another thread.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1000&message=36155562
The "post comment" button on dpReview news items doesn't work anything like similar buttons on blogs or newspapers. Instead of actually posting a comment after the article, it starts a brand new thread over in the "News" forum.
But the person using the "post comment" button doesn't know it's creating a post somewhere far, far away. One that doesn't refer back to the news item, so they assume that anyone reading the comment is familiar with the news item.
Send dpReview some polite feedback about the bug, maybe we can get it on their "todo" list.
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Framer
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I guess you have missed that almost 99% of the time that you see "RE:" in a subject in the News forum it is relating to a News story here:
http://www.dpreview.com/
This has been the case for quite some time...
Anyway, hope that helps!
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