[Ham-Mac] ARRL Survey Results

[David Kelly]

On Saturday 09 August 2003 08:11 am, KL�S wrote:
> 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.

I'm at loss as to whether or not I believe the ARRL is smart enough to 
log each vote by IP address, web browser, and OS. It would then be 
pretty easy to know if the election had been rigged.

Its also sort of silly to hold such a poll, because the web server knows 
what OS your browser says its running... If only someone is smart 
enough to pay attention.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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