IMO, prizes should mostly be reserved for those physically present.  They 
are a good incentive for personal attendance.

Now, maybe one prize could be offered to a web attendee.  Have the speaker 
or conductor randomly announce that the prize is available and give a prize 
code word.  The first person to have their identifying email with the prize 
code word arrive at a special email address, gets the prize.  The prize 
email address should be accessible at the meeting so the winner could be 
announced in the broadcast.  That would be cool!

I wonder how long it would take for the winning email to get there?

Speaker: "Send the code word 'ipchains' to win this hat.  Now as I was 
about to say..."
Email person: "We have a web winner!"

Would it be that fast?

Winner of the web prize would have to make arrangements to pick it up from 
somewhere.  That way PLUG is not shipping anything.

Alan

PS But what if the winner is attending from Kalamazoo?  Web attendees 
listening at Opnix would be disqualified because of unfair bandwidth.  ;^)

At 09:46 PM 10/12/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Well it looks as though some of you guys found the webcast of the meeting.
>  I wonder if we can continue with them.  As far as prizes go, maybe we can
>work something out.  Any suggestions? --