What's the easiest way to create a survey that anyone on a site (even users from the Reader site group) can participate in?
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From a view of the survey, click Modify survey and questions, click Change Permissions, and then, for the Reader site group, allow the view, insert, edit, and delete items rights.
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Create a subsite that allows all site groups to view, insert, edit, and delete items in all lists, and then create a new survey.
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To do this, you need a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible Web page editor such as Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003.
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Windows SharePoint Services doesn't allow you to do this for security reasons
Creating a survey accessible to all users including Readers is done by modifying survey permissions. From the survey view, clicking 'Modify survey and questions' and then 'Change Permissions' allows granting additional rights (view, insert, edit, delete) to the Reader group. This is the simplest method compared to creating subsites or using external editors. Option A is correct.
Option A is correct. Windows SharePoint Services surveys are governed by list-level permissions like any other list. The straightforward way to open participation to everyone, including the Reader group (which normally only has view rights), is to go to the survey, use 'Modify survey and questions' > 'Change Permissions,' and explicitly grant the Reader group the view/insert/edit/delete rights needed to respond. Creating a whole new subsite (option B) is unnecessarily heavyweight; a special web page editor (option C) isn't required for permissions; and option D is simply false — WSS does allow permission changes for exactly this purpose.