Heather Brodeur wrote: > Bruce Dawson wrote: >>Ted Roche wrote: >>>I'm not sure we have an easy way to distinguish email addresses. >>> >>Yes, but we don't have a good way of ensuring only one person gets a >>vote. Actually, I think this was discussed on the general mailing some >>time ago - I just can't find it. > > Perhaps I'm being a bit over simplistic, but shouldn't we just require > registration to vote? If someone wants to be a "voting member" they > have to let us know who they are, where to find them, and what their > aliases are. If someone wants to remain anonymous to the list or > chapters (or SIGs), fine, but they aren't eligible to vote. Do we > really expect that people would make up and register multiple > personalities just to skew the vote?
Sure, we can do that. I just want to be in the position of "I told you so.", and pray that I don't have to ;-) BTW: Back in the mid-to-late-90's I was a member of a UG that had a vendor try to "take over" by doing exactly this (they wanted to get rid of the non-commercialization policy). However, people got suspicious when about 30 names showed up one day from the same domain. A more sophisticated "attack" is easy, and harder to detect. I believe they subsequently required a physical presence at a meeting to vote. --Bruce _______________________________________________ gnhlug-org mailing list gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org
