Re: Looking For Suggestions for an Email Voting System

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Author: Michael Havens
Date:  
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Looking For Suggestions for an Email Voting System
Forgive me for speaking where I have little knowledge but could the links send
a new email to either of two new accounts. The new accounts being 'vote yes'
and 'vote no'? so then just a count of the messages in the box would tally
the vote.

On Friday 20 April 2007 1:03 pm, der.hans wrote:
> Am 20. Apr, 2007 schwätzte Mark Phillips so:
> > I manage an email list of about 1100 people. It is an announce only list
> > run through mailman; However, I don't have command line access to
> > mailman, just through the web interface. All responses to the email list
> > are ignored.
> >
> > I need to send out an email to the group asking for a yes or no vote on
> > an issue. I don't want to send them to a web page, but instead have the
> > links embedded in the email. But the link should be automatic - click on
> > the link and a no vote is registered, or click on the yes link and a yes
> > vote is registered. Registering a particular vote can be an email to a
> > particular address (one for yes and another one for no). Not sure how to
> > do this while providing some measure of security - i.e. a person (i.e. an
> > email address) should not be able to vote more than once.
>

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