I have been perusing the news.groups faq and it appears that the vote takers, when the call for vote is taken, are required to post the validated real email addresses of everyone who voted in effort to avoid voter fraud. So voting means time for a new mail.com address or an invitation to spam central it appears....
EJ
Technical correction: The vote-taker normally publishes a munged form of the 'real' address. However, all the addresses in the list are munged in the same way, making it trivial to re-construct the 'real' addresses.
Note: for anybody _whom_I_recognize_ as a rec.woodworking participant, I am willing to provide a temporary forwarding e-mail address out of my domain name-space, for the vote.
I can also provide _durable_ addresses, to be used only for USENET posting, where any messages 'replying' to a posting will be passed through, but anything else gets rejected. (Yes, I run a 'psychic' mail-server -- it can tell the difference between a reply generated by newsreader client software, and a direct e-mail. This is 'how' I post with an un-munged, reply-able address, and don't see _any_ spam in my inbox. :)
Question:
I assume addresses must be valid in order to vote (IOW, no anti-UBE strings included)?
If so, is there any rule restricting a voter from using a one-time throwaway (but valid) address?
djb
how would they know?
Correct. There is an auto-confirm to the 'sending' address. To prevent you voting "somebody else's" address, among other things.
If there was, I wouldn't be offering to provide such addresses.
Nope. none whatsoever. Which is
Okay, that's easy then. I can create an address for this, then toss it.
Thanks.
djb
Dave Balderstone wrote in news:150920041615175485%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_S.balderstone.ca:
Perhaps we should see if there will be a vote first. Not all RFDs go to the CFV stage.
I actually don't think this one will, based on an email I received last night from one of hte proposed moderators, but I actually hope it does.
I use spamcop.net to filter my mail, which blocks about 98% of the crap sent to me. I've even stopped checking the held spam for real mail, having never seen a real message in there in months. Worth the
30 bucks a year, to allow me to be reachable by real people and use my real address for stuff like this.I'm just sayin'...
Dave Hinz
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