Leaving the last digit from the last octet out would be fine, though? Then you could group by IP addresses for purposes like fraud checking and suchlike. I'm sure the BBC sites always say that standard information such as browser and IP address will be collected whenever you submit information to the server, so that's a fairly standard get-out clause. There's bugger all you can really do with an IP address, even a complete one, unless you're a malicious fellow with a botnet behind you.
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of vijay chopra Sent: 26 September 2007 18:54 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Voting data ideas Whilst I applaud your effort, I inherently distrust online polls, and cs disclaimed on a site that we're all familiar with: "This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane." So the most intrestind data to me would be data that would allow us to see the level of "ballot stuffig". Votes by IP would be ideal, but releaseing would those probably against the data protection act, the next best thing would be votes by geographical area and\or ISP regards, Vijay. On 26/09/2007, Martin Belam < <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Part of my brief is to explore how the BBC might utilise and re-use information and data gathered via voting, and hopefully make a business case for releasing it. When talking about voting data I'm thinking of examples like... The Daily Mini-Quiz on the Magazine - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/default.stm <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/default.stm> Votes on local BBC sites - http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/raw/favourite_childrens_book_east_feature.s html Votes on CBBC Newsround - http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6040000/newsid_6048100/6048158 <http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6040000/newsid_6048100/6048158> . stm And also things like the Player Rater http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/6447317.stm <http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/6447317.stm> (which I can't find an open example of, I think you'll have to have a look for them around 3pm on Saturday) What I'm interested in is hearing any ideas you might have about including that kind of data in prototypes, how you might track it over time or by topic and so on.
