On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 12:04:46PM -0700, Stuart Jansen wrote: > Some of you may have noticed that poll on the UUG site was was slammed > by candidates, or their minions, using bots to vote. Only one candidate > bothered to include a rate limit to prevent DOSing the server. That > candidate? Derek "goozbach" Carter. > > The delay was originally 15 seconds. When it became obvious that other > candidates were being less restrained, the delay was reduced to 5 > seconds. When it became obvious that it was impossible to artificially > inflate the count without attacking the server, the bot was stopped. How > do I know? I wrote the script. > > And so, my fellow Americans (and international student studying at BYU), > let me conclude by saying: vote goozbach! He's not evil.
or vote for the candidate who didn't even bother having a bot vote for them... :) (btw, when the poll came back online around 11 or so last night, bots were still going for spr and for topher... and yet tuxgirl was in the lead...) vote for tuxgirl! -- Erin Sharmahd [EMAIL PROTECTED] CS Student Unix Users Group PGP Fingerprint: F352 FF41 EA0A 67E4 566B 3B5B E65A D3DC 083E 9336
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