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Title: Research for my diploma thesis
Post by: babi on June 28, 2023, 14:29:12
Dear members,

Currently, I am a graduating mechanical engineering student. For my thesis, I have chosen to survey the vintage car parts market and address any potential supply issues that may arise.
Please take a few minutes to complete this survey and share your experiences and opinions.

https://forms.gle/RCmnYib84MtMMKSf8

Thank you if you help my work by filling in the form! :)
Title: Re: Research for my diploma thesis
Post by: rwmastel on June 28, 2023, 21:03:05
Anyone want to put this link into a safe system or tool, to make sure it's not leading to malware or other harmful things?
Title: Re: Research for my diploma thesis
Post by: MikeSimon on June 28, 2023, 21:35:02
I was thinking the same thing. Did not click on the link. Strange subject for a Mechanical Engineering thesis. Sounds more like a MBA/business theme to me.
Title: Re: Research for my diploma thesis
Post by: DavidAPease on June 28, 2023, 23:38:30
The URL forms.gle is a Google Forms gateway.  Users can build forms there for collecting data.  (Somewhat like the way we can set up surveys on our site.) 

Since this is a "safe" site, I decided to go there.  The form asks a series of innocuous questions about parts availability and cost for Pagodas.  I think it would take many entries to get statistically valid conclusions, but the site doesn't ask for anything private, so there's no harm in helping him out.

          -David
Title: Re: Research for my diploma thesis
Post by: babi on June 29, 2023, 07:23:00
To be clear! This questionnaire is only required for a small part of my thesis. The bulk of the work will involve designing and manufacturing a component.
The answers will only give me a found for the topic. At the beginning of my thesis I would like to explain why I started designing a part of this kind.

Thank you for your answers so far!!

(I'm not sure how I can prove to you that the link is safe, I will listen to your advice)
Title: Re: Research for my diploma thesis
Post by: BobH on June 29, 2023, 07:38:23
As David says, it's perfectly safe, i've completed the online form, absolutely no harm in helping Babi with his research if you have a spare few minutes
Title: Re: Research for my diploma thesis
Post by: Cees Klumper on June 29, 2023, 13:49:58
I just completed the survey.
Title: Re: Research for my diploma thesis
Post by: Jonny B on June 29, 2023, 14:31:59
Figured I would join the crowd too, just finished the survey
Title: Re: Research for my diploma thesis
Post by: mdsalemi on June 29, 2023, 14:49:40
Harmless to me and I completed it. Nearly any kind of malware trying to infect a Macintosh OS computer is stopped at the front gate...and even if things do get though some changes to a system that affect a system operation ALWAYS (no matter WHERE the software comes from) require acknowledgment and input from the user.

I was fighting viruses and malware daily on my PC, though never really infected, but it was a massive time sink. Once I switched to a Mac these issues completely went away.
Title: Re: Research for my diploma thesis
Post by: Peter on June 29, 2023, 18:13:43
Helping a student, who could be against that!