Hi Sam and gangue, This is kind of similar to the "Vote for my Site" charts, isn't it? I recall one where the lead site was using absolute positioning on their main web page for a floating frame, which was positioned to "capture" the mouse pointer when it came up, and then used an IE5 "OnMouseover" command to send a vote to the "register your vote" page.
Stands to reason it was the leader in it's section. I used a "Vote" page for a list I am on to help decide whether it should move ISP's or stay where it was. The script for it had NO vetting of input as you describe, but it was a member only closed list, and all voted using an "honour" system. Since we knew how many were on the list in total (about 369) we knew that votes over that would have to be duplicates. All worked out ok. It should be possible to write a Jspit to do what you ask, and thus only allow one vote per initial visit, but of course that would only work with Jspit enabled browsers and would involve probly about three cookies at least to make it work. Regards mel --from Mel Evans, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check out http://www.arachne4dos.freeserve.co.uk for more details and FREE DOWNLOAD of Arachne, the Internet suite, WWW browser and e-mailer that runs in and for DOS! and now LINUX!
