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Date:      Tue, 27 Jul 1999 05:47:07 -0600
From:      "Dragon Knight ][" <dragonk@mato.com>
To:        "Francisco Reyes" <francisco@natserv.com>, "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, "Rod Taylor" <dark@idiotswitch.org>
Cc:        "FreeBSd Chat list" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD essentials
Message-ID:  <01e801bed825$c1e2ac00$0101a8c0@mato.com>
References:  <199907271142.HAA02529@vulcan.addy.com>

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> On 27 Jul 1999 13:37:36 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> 
> >> Whelp... You could use the IP and block it from voting again for 2
> >> hours or something. This would allow dynamic people to both vote
> >> (should they get the ip), and wouldn't allow one person to load it
> >> up very quickly.
> >
> >Consider how many -chat readers work for (or are) ISPs.
> 
> The only thing I could think of was verifying a user by sending
> an email to which they need to reply and to verify this id is a
> valid user of one of the freebsd lists... but I can't remember
> if the lists currently allow to see members (which I actually
> hope they don't since this would allow spammers to get the
> names).
> 
> Overall having people have to reply is one of the better methods
> I can think off.. although somewhat of an inconvinience.
> 

I would think that slight inconvenience is the whole idea.  Because
one being a slight inconvenience, 1000 = big inconvenience. Of
course there are always ways around this, scripts and the like
that auto-reply..  etc, ..   But if a slight inconvenience is involved
you might want to ask a person if they wish to vote?  which might,
again, taint the pool of votes.

Samuel 



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