Re: Looking For Suggestions for an Email Voting System

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Author: Alan Dayley
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Looking For Suggestions for an Email Voting System
Mark Phillips wrote:
> On Friday 20 April 2007 14:46, Michael Havens wrote:
>> 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.
>
> That would work. However, how do I keep some one from voting 10 times?


The web page with the link would include the voter's browser user agent
string and IP address in the voting email. Then filter the votes to
count each user agent and IP address only once.

Not perfect but probably close enough.

Alan



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