cookies and OnLine Voting

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Bourbon?

"Atwood, Mark" <atwoodm at paragon-inc.com> wrote:You guys are KILLIN me. Every time I see this subject I end up eating another Christmas Cookie... You need a new subject! And NOT "Eggnog and Online Voting" either....



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From: discussion-request at nsrca.org on behalf of John Ferrell
Sent: Fri 12/24/2004 5:34 PM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: Re: cookies and OnLine Voting


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" 

To: 
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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