On 6/27/06, Tom Marble <tmarble at info9.net> wrote: > John T. Hoffoss wrote: > > Yes, Lift Yahoo Ban > > We're not really going to conduct a poll via e-mail, are we? > > There *must* be some FOSS solution for strong authentication > (at least identity as confirmed by round-trip e-mail, if not GPG). > When I edit my "members page" I am prompted for HTTP Basic Authentication > so https://mn-linux.org has an identity database that we could use. > So I'm advocating voting on a website (instead of e-mail) so that we can > reduce the likelihood of gaming the vote and provide statistics. > > Didn't Bob refer to some website for the (older?) poll? > I didn't dig for that URL because if we are starting a new poll I don't want to > speak for the disposition of any previous infrastructure/poll. Holy crap people, what the hell is wrong with just saying yes/no? Auit the discussion, at least in this thread, and quit the "hey lets write a tool to do this" and lets just frickin do it so we can be done with this one way or the other. Saying yes/no in an email WORKS. You don't need a poll software. You can't really go around and spoof votes this way either, unless you're going to register a bunch of yahoo (grin) accounts to skew the results.