Thanks Larry. You're right, it isn't good for 2.1 -- yet. You could put in an enhancement request, both at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/mailman and http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/evote
The actual work would involve only modifying a few Mailman 2.1's modules and making the new installation script. Marilyn On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Larry Hansford wrote: > I read the article in Linux Journal last night, and liked the description > of this software. But, it didn't appear from the article that it would > work with Mailman 2.1, which I'm running. The lines it adds to the aliases > are of the old format. I would love to have a capability such as the > eVote, though. > > Larry > > At 11:40 AM 2/7/2003, Marilyn Davis wrote: > >An open source software utility, eVote(R)/Clerk, has been recently > >enhanced to cooperate with GNU Mailman 2.0.13. The eVote code, now > >available <http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/evote>, provides a > >facility for taking polls among the subscribers of email discussion > >lists. > > > >The project's developer, Marilyn Davis, Ph.D., [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >of California, http://www.Deliberate.com, has provided eVote with a > >telnet interface since 1994; and since 1996 as an add-on utility to > >the Majordomo listserve. > > > > FEATURES > > > > * Enables any member of an email list to generate a new poll for > > the group. > > > > * Polls can be: > > > > + Public - where everyone can see everyone's votes, or > > + Private - where no one can see anyone else's vote, or > > + If-Voted - where everyone can see who voted, but not how > > they voted. > > > > + Numeric - where votes are from 1 to 10, or -10 to 10, etc., or > > + Yes/No. > > > > + Visible - where everyone can see the tally while the poll is > > open, or > > + Hidden - where no one can see the results until the poll is > > closed. > > > > + Single item - or, > > + Grouped items - where participants vote for one of a number > > of choices, or for three of the choices, or they can > > distribute their 100 vote points over the choices. > > > > * Supports petitions. Petitions are generated and collaboratively > > administered by the members of a "petition" list. Petition features: > > > > + Open for anyone to sign. > > + Supported in English, Spanish and French. > > + Can be: > > - Signature-only petitions > > - Petitions with voting items > > - Petitions with forms > > > > > >The Linux Journal, <http://www.LinuxJournal.com>, the monthly magazine > >of the Linux Community, is featuring an article about eVote in the > >March, 2003 issue. On the Linux Journal website, Don Marti, the > >Journal's editor says: > > > >"On page 72, Marilyn Davis explains that true democracy needs both > >elections and deliberation. Most systems offer one or the other, but > >not both. However, Marilyn's eVote system makes it possible for any > >user of a Mailman-based mailing list to start a wide variety of > >single-choice or multiple-choice polls. After the initial setup, > >there's no need for an administrator." > > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: archive@jab.org Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org