Kent and all, As you have admitted yourself you E-Mail voting bot does not allow for secret ballot, as such it is a poor substitute for Joops Voting Booth, and is in validation to all excepted electronic voting principals. I must say it is nice to see you two boys cooperating better together (William and Kent), but it would more constructive if it were a cooperation of a type that was not trying to subliminally snub Joop and the IDNO. >;) Kent Crispin wrote: > On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 06:06:47PM -0800, William X. Walsh wrote: > > > The Web based interface has the advantage that everyone can check on the > > > results at any time. > > > > It would be a trivial matter to add an automatic webpage result updating system to >Kent's > > Votebot software, that would resolve this "concern." > > Actually, I have already added a couple of cgi scripts to the > distribution that do the tally -- as you indicated, that was really > only a couple of hours work. Still beta, though. > > I have some other web-based features I am working on, as well -- as > you know, the votebot runs off of mail lists, and web interfaces to > mail lists are common, and easy to do. There are a couple of > well-known ones for majordomo, and I have done one for a particular > list I run. So I thought I would just add a web interface to control > subscriptions to the list of voters. The end result will be an > integrated mail list/votebot web interface, so you have equal access > in either mode. That whole package is a bit more complicated, and I > am doing it a bit at a time. It should be ready for release in a > couple of weeks, depending on how much time I get before Christmas > rush sets in. > > > And best of all, it doesn't require any proprietary software or licenses, and nor >does it > > require that anyone contract with the "consulting" company that is running the >software. > > Well, in the open source tradition, I would appreciate it if people > contact me with any significant changes, bug fixes, or improvements > they might make. > > -- > Kent Crispin "Do good, and you'll be > [EMAIL PROTECTED] lonesome." -- Mark Twain -- Jeffrey A. Williams Spokesman INEGroup (Over 95k members strong!) CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC. E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Number: 972-447-1894 Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
