From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 27 4:49:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mato.com (Mail.mato.com [199.240.78.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C4571532F for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 04:49:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dragonk@mato.com) Received: from dragonk [199.240.78.238] by mail.mato.com with smtp id 1195iM-00008O-00; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 05:48:11 -0600 Message-ID: <01e801bed825$c1e2ac00$0101a8c0@mato.com> From: "Dragon Knight ][" To: "Francisco Reyes" , "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" , "Rod Taylor" Cc: "FreeBSd Chat list" References: <199907271142.HAA02529@vulcan.addy.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD essentials Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 05:47:07 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message