Looking For Suggestions for an Email Voting System

[Erik Bixby]

mailto: links with randomly generated keys in the subject?

On 4/20/07, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions or ideas you may have.
>
> Mark Phillips
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