ecarp@netcom.com (Ed Carp):
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Sounds like a very easy scheme to break. Say I suddenly decide that I don't like your posts or Tim Mays posts. I can get you kicked off by using anonymous accounts to say that you're a nuisance. It seems to me
It's not as easy as you might think. How many anonymous accounts can you get? There are only so many anon servers, and for each anon account you have to have a different real account, all it buys you is your vote registers twice
Do you know how easy it is to fake an address? I occasionally telnet to port 25 and talk SMTP directly, to avoid spooling, but I have to type in the address I want the mail to appear from. There's no way of ensuring that I type in my real address, or _any_ real address at all for that matter. Digitally signed voting? Only works if you restrict yourself to 'known' voters. Net identities are very easy to fake or create.
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