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Re: Language Choices and LUGNET
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:28:08 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Dan Boger wrote:
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:50:43AM +0000, Mark Jordan wrote:
Here's my top 10 (no particular order) list of why people might not vote:

...

Any others you can think of?

Reading via mail/news - voting was never implemented for those readers.

How many people read LUGNET like that? Would it be worth it to implement voting
for those readers? Or are the non technical factors more significant?



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  Re: Language Choices and LUGNET
 
(...) I don't know the stats for people reading via NNTP, but according to the lugnet.admin.statistics posts, there's about 3000 SMTP users - more than the number of members (people who can vote right now). (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
  Re: Language Choices and LUGNET
 
(...) Voting via email might be possible, although annoying and pretty unsecure. A reply by default just goes to the list. You'd have to somehow send your member ID (and password!) and a flag that says "I'm spotlighting this" via SMTP that would get (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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  Re: Language Choices and LUGNET
 
(...) ... (...) Reading via mail/news - voting was never implemented for those readers. (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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