Hello Judith, Another idea to keep it fair is to authenticate the physical address information using something like certitax, at least you'd have to make up more than the email address correctly and then since this is a subscriber drive at least CFDJ knew they would be sending the subscription to a legit address at the very least. This could slow the ability for bad votes, but the credit card is the most used technique of affirming ones info.
Kind Regards, Mike Randolph At 01:06 AM 5/30/2003 -0400, you wrote: >The real question is, when it comes to these things, how do you secure >such an application so that there is no cheating? It may well be that >CFDJ's new system of having previous subscribers count as two is to offset >people who log in multiple times to stack their score. This may be a good >community project: How do you secure such a contest. > >If you go to the CFDJ site, you can log in as many times as you want with >as many email addresses as you want, and it doesn't even check if you have >a valid email address. Maybe it checks the validity of the email address >when the person actually submits their vote, but there's no way of knowing >that except to test it. Michael, being the evil soul that he is, could >write up a fast application that would randomly log onto the site, fill in >all the proper information, randomly vote for things that don't matter, >and always vote for the one thing he is focused on. It would take him -- >what? 3 seconds? Maybe for someone more innocent, it will take them as >much as a minute. But of course Michael wouldn't do that, as he has morals. > >(Hopefully, everyone on this list has morals and will not take this as a >challenge. Anyone who thinks about it must face the whip!) > >Judith >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mike Randolph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 12:43 AM >Subject: Re: CFDJ Heaviest Advertiser awards... > > > > Hello Judith, > > > > Blue Dragon is just is in the wrong category and/or it should be competing > > with CFMX and we'll put our application into the Most Innovative > ColdFusion > > SERVER category. Because even though we've had some issues with our new > > product and CFMX. Our new product is very Innovative and leverages CFMX > > (Java lifting, CF displaying) better than any current product out > currently > > not made by Macromedia. IMO... I can't be humble about our new > product...sorry. > > > > Kind Regards, > > Mike Randolph > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
