I'd recommend being a little careful about what you conclude from an IP address. Employees at a large company are all going to look like they have the same IP address once their traffic hits the internet, by virtue of their corporate firewall.
Greg KO6TH
----Original Message Follows---- From: Gregg Wonderly w5ggw@cox.net Reply-To: w5ggw@wonderly.org To: "Ransom, Kenneth G. (JSC-OC)[BAR]" kenneth.g.ransom@nasa.gov CC: sarex@AMSAT.Org Subject: [sarex] Re: Packet and Crossband repeater Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 11:56:25 -0500
Ransom, Kenneth G. (JSC-OC)[BAR] wrote:
I tested the system to verify the validity of the poll and voted a few dozen times during my check. It is not the honest hams that concern me. It is the one person that voted 700 times trying to sway opinion.
So the from IP address is recorded as part of the HTTP transaction for each form submission. Thus, the results reporting could, in fact just take the last vote for each IP address and report such results. Thus, it wouldn't have to complain about duplicates. But, if you voted repeatedly and saw the numbers changing per your voting attempts, then it's clearly not configured to be smart about taking votes only once for each IP address.
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