cookies and OnLine Voting

[John Ferrell]

I agree. However, there is a privacy problem be it real or percieved. 
When a database is shared there is always the possibility of having it misused. 

Many of us are indifferent to who keeps track of us but many others are very sensitive about that. I feel less anonymity would make for a "cleaner" world!

I think there ought to be a law forbidding databases that won't output CSV!

John Ferrell    
http://DixieNC.US

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bob Pastorello 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 5:00 AM
  Subject: Re: cookies and OnLine Voting


  What we need, and I first tried to get when a District VP in '99, is the actual participation  information from AMA.  If we had that databaae, annually dumped as a single csv, there are those around (me, for one) who could do data comparisons to determine some answers...How many actual individuals play?  What classes?  How many contests per player?  Compare querying against NSRCA databases would give the REAL "percent of participants who are NSRCA members", and then by class.
      Which also could be information mined for recruiting, feedback, direction, and of course, RULE MAKING.

  In '99, the AMA  IT guy told me "we (AMA) can't get it out of the computers".... maybe 5 years is enough time to make it possible?  Officer elects/candidates - you have at least ONE volunteer to do the database crunching if you can get it.  I'd bet there are others, too.

  Bob Pastorello
  NSRCA 199  AMA 46373
  rcaerobob at cox.net
  www.rcaerobats.net


    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Ed Hartley 
    To: discussion at nsrca.org 
    Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 10:52 PM
    Subject: Re: cookies and OnLine Voting


    At the moment I type this there are 404 members on the discussion list. I 
    don't know how many of these belong to NSRCA.

    Ed Hartley
    roho2 at rcpattern.com

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: "Grow Pattern" <pattern4u at comcast.net>
    To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
    Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 11:41 PM
    Subject: Re: cookies and OnLine Voting


    > Steve,
    >           If the current member number is, say 600 plus,  how many do you 
    > think are on the discussion list?  I heard about 200. If that is right 
    > then we need to design a system that reaches more than just this e-mail 
    > list.
    >
    > Just thinking out loud,
    >
    > Eric.
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