[conlang_learners] Voting procedure wiki page

[Tony Harris]

Actually it might not be too hard to throw together a quick PHP page 
that lists the candidates, lets people select one and requires their 
email address, then records that into a database, with verification that 
the same email address cannot be entered twice or some such.  Or, see if 
something like SurveyMonkey has freebee accounts for one-off polls like 
this.  Just a thought.

Failing that, the list does sound like the best idea.

Amanda Babcock Furrow wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 02:55:55PM -0400, Jim Henry wrote:
>
>   
>> We can try to do that, but I'm uncertain about it; I seem to recall
>> that when we created the conlang_learners list it took several days
>> for certain information to propagate so that everybody could subscribe
>> to it and all subscribers could post to it.  
>>     
>
> I believe the issue was the lack of MX records for conlang.org, which
> is a "solve once, use many" type problem.  It doesn't need to be
> redone for each @conlang.org list.
>
>   
>> Given that this
>> vote-counters list would have the reverse of the usual functionality,
>> i.e. anybody can post to it but only members can read the posts, I
>> shouldn't be surprised if there are more than the usual number of
>> kinks to work out at first.
>>     
>
> It's true the settings would be different: closed to new members,
> open to non-member posters.  That should be easy to test before
> Tuesday, though.
>
>   
>> What might be simpler is for one of you to create an ad-hoc Gmail or
>> Yahoo mail account and share the password with the other two
>> vote-counters and the email address with the conlang_learners list at
>> large.  Do you see any problems with that?
>>     
>
> Not if we trust all the password-holders not to delete votes, I don't :)
> (A list is much safer as far as an electronic paper trail for votes!)
>
> However, if we choose the ad-hoc gmail route, somebody who has created 
> such an ad-hoc email account before should do the honors.
>
> Amanda
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