[Ham-Mac] ARRL Survey Results

[Chris Smolinski]

>On Saturday 09 August 2003 08:11 am, KL=D8S 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.

I get the feeling the guys running the website are appliance 
operators - both of their radios and computers.
I only give them a 50% chance of picking up a soldering iron by the 
correct end.



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