• sqldriver (8/28/2014)


    The email addresses I was processing were not from a web form, they were provided to us either by clients, or by data marts. Nothing was deleted, it was just given a 'status flag' that meant the email inspection found something wonky. A certain percentage of the contact information was expected to be inaccurate or incorrect. So if the project was running a long time without a high response rate, and the PM didn't want to buy more sample, the remainder email addresses could be released.

    I had to do a lot of similar stuff with phone number cleaning/checking and formatting so the dialer could make the calls correctly.

    Market research is a bummer.

    Hey, you know it's your fault that the invalid email addresses and phone numbers don't work. Because they're invalid, that shouldn't impact the response rate, should it? Your situation is certainly not unique. Guess who else works in market research? 😀