IEEE EnterpriseThe IEEE shamelessly spammed me with the =

following offer after (unless I got it wrong) I unticked =

their "please spam me" boxes during a recent session.

10 free accesses to a range of IEEE products.

While it is presented as a 'special offer due to your great =

beauty and buying from us' type deal it in fact appears to =

be a webpage open to all and sundry. ie my "offer" came with =

a string of identifiers in the url BUT the following is the =

URL of the webpage underlying it

        http://www.ieee.org/portal/innovate/freetrial/index.html?


The offer is available only to companies and not to =

individuals, students or academic institutions. The latter =

are given a link to another trial access means. The line =

company/individual/student seems a blurred one to me - each =

can decide for themselves how blurred it is.

A look may be of value to some.


        Russell

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Subject: Special Offer as a Thank You for Your IEEE Article =

Purchase

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