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Hi,

We are a computer systems research group at the Computer Science
department at Rutgers University, and are conducting research on
simplifying the software configuration process. The idea is to
leverage the configurations of existing users of a piece of software
to ease the configuration process for each new user of the software.

The reason for this message is that we would like to collect a large
number of deployed configurations to help evaluate our ideas. Thus,
we ask systems administrators and end users to submit information
about their configurations for any software that they have had to
configure, such as Apache, MySQL, and Linux.

We hope that you have a few minutes to take our survey which is
located at: http://vivo.cs.rutgers.edu/massconf/MassConf.html As an
incentive, all surveys completed in their entirety will be entered
into a drawing of a number of $50 gift certificates (from Amazon.com).

Important: Our work is purely scientific, so we have no interest in
any private or commercially sensitive information that may come along
with your configuration data. We will make sure that no such
information is ever made public. In fact, if you wish, you are more
than welcome to anonymize or remove any sensitive information from the
configuration data you send us.

If you have any questions regarding this message or our work, feel
free to email Wei Zheng (wzheng at cs dot rutgers dot edu).


Thanks for your time,

Wei Zheng
PhD student, Vivo Research Group (http://vivo.cs.rutgers.edu)
Rutgers University