Please be assured that your identity (your name or e-mail address) will not ever be revealed in connection with your responses to any of these questions.

If I choose to quote respondents in my study, I will use pseudonyms for all respondents. Please feel free to answer all of the following questions honestly and in as much detail as you want to.

1. Name

2. E-mail address

3. Sex

4. Birthdate

5. City and state where you are located (or city and country, if not inside U.S.)

6. Education

7. What is your occupation?

8. Where is the computer located that you use to access cinema-l?

9. How long have you belonged to cinema-l?

10. How did you come to join cinema-l?

11. Do you feel comfortable posting messages to the list? If yes, how often do you post? If no, why don't you post?

12. What do you like most about belonging to cinema-l? Please explain.

13. Are there any aspects of cinema-l that you don't like? Please explain.

14. Is there a particular time of day when you log in to read cinema-l?

15. How much time do you spend reading or sending cinema-l messages? (please estimate amount of time per day, or amount of time per week)

16. Can you tell who a message is from?

a) Contributor's name or e-mail address is listed before message.

b) Contributor's name or e-mail address is listed after message.

c) I can only tell who a message is from if the contributor signs it.

d) Other (explain).

17. Do you read all of the messages, or just certain ones?

18. If you only read certain messages, how do you decide which to read?

19. Are there certain types of messages you avoid reading?

20. Do you belong to any other e-mail lists? If so, how do they compare to cinema-l?

21. Do you ever correspond privately with any members of cinema-l about subjects that come up on the list?

22. Do you ever share cinema-l messages with friends who are not list members? What is their attitude or response to the messages you share and/or your membership in the list?

23. Have you ever asked anyone else to join cinema-l?

24. How would you describe your degree of knowledge of computers?

25. Why do you belong to cinema-l?