[Ham-Mac] ARRL Survey Results

[Chris Smolinski]

>Although I'm sure that every one of the votes indicating a user's system to
>be the Mac OS on this week's ARRL computer operating system are absolutely
>genuine, it "seems" (based on some previous notes here on this reflector)
>that it's possible that our numbers are being artificially inflated (35%/672
>votes as of this writing).  If that were the case then unfortunately a great
>result could be interpreted as being the inaccurate result of a few folks
>who got around the "you may vote only once" rule of the survey.....in the
>long run that could do more to damage our cause with the ARRL to better
>support our OS than a more realistic count.
>
>Machts nichts to me, but after spending 26 years of my life in the Army
>defending our right to live in this great land I'm kinda partial to honesty
>and integrity and hate to envision that we as a group may be violating those
>principles.
>
>Having said all that if every vote is genuine then Hooah!!!!  Maybe it will
>wake the ARRL up!!!!!!

I sent an email to the various Mac news sites. Hoepfully they will 
post a note about the poll, and "get out the vote". This should 
result in a flood of votes from unique IP addresses, with no 
legitimate reason to throw away votes. I suspect the ARRL folks 
running the survey may still do that, however.

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Chris Smolinski
Black Cat Systems
http://www.blackcatsystems.com