On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Max Rabkin <max.rab...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> We should limit voting, and limit based on IP. If we go via email, >> then anyone wishing extra votes merely needs to use mailinator.com >> (and its dozens of alternate domain names, to say nothing of >> competitors providing similar services) to vote as many times as they >> want. If we care about fraud, then it would be a very troublesome task >> to filter out all those ways to fraudulently vote; if we don't care >> about fraud, then email confirms are just a burden on honest users. > > I don't know about other people, but for me it takes less time to > change IP addresses than to sign up for a mail account. > > dhclient -r dsl0 && dhclient dsl0 > > vs. fill in a form on a webpage. > > --Max
You don't sign up for a Mailinator account. That's the whole point. Take a look at https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Mailinator -- gwern _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
