[thelist] Looking for a poll

[Hansen, Grant]

	>Correct me if I'm wrong, but the IP address isn't universal.  As
soon as an 
	>ISP customer logs off and logs back on, they have a new IP address.
I know 
	>on my DSL at home, the IP address I connect to is different each
time.

That's true, but looking at his requirement of :

> (on this particular site users can cast one vote a day). 

I was thinking that most users would only dial their ISP once a day anyway,
and therefore only have one IP a day.  It's not perfect I know, I just felt
like contributing something instead of lurking around.

If the person is going to log on and off all day just to cast votes then the
jokes on them I think :-)

Grant Hansen 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ben Dyer [SMTP:ben_dyer at imaginuity.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, August 01, 2001 8:17 AM
> To:	thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject:	RE: [thelist] Looking for a poll
> 
> 
> 
> Someone earlier mentioned e-mail addresses or accounts: those are the most
> 
> effective at stopping most problems.  It's still "fudgable" (wasn't that a
> 
> cookie?) but the tedium level for doing so is great enough that most who 
> would otherwise try to screw with the poll won't.
> 
> We had this problem before with one of our client's polls.  When the user 
> account system was set up, the polls tied in with it and we never had 
> ballot stuffing problems again (certainly nothing noticable).
> 
> --Ben
> 
> At 05:10 PM 7/31/2001, you wrote:
> >How about recording the IP address of the user in an array or DB and only
> >allow one vote per IP address?  The only problem I can see is that users
> who
> >access the web page through the same firewall may all appear to have the
> >same IP address.  It depends who your target is I guess.
> 
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