You going to store the credit card number? Seems silly to me.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Randolph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 1:18 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: CFDJ Heaviest Advertiser awards... > > Hello Judith, > > Whip's fun! I'm working on it now. Honestly there only been 859 or so > votes it wouldn't be very difficult to see any garbage in the voting, IF > they didn't just want there advertisers to win. *** I'm not buying the > whole keep it fair thing ***. But if you wanted to keep it fair and > assuming we're mostly adults with some form of credit card you could > required require a valid CC to vote and auth it for 50 cents and then kill > the transaction. Most people can generate a thousand email address, but > how many people have credit cards in multiple names? > > Best 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 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
