Tyler Pearson wrote:

This would work fine, but how are votes counted? I assume it would have to be assigned to someone. A forum allows the results of a poll to be shown instantly, without having to add up everyone's votes.

There's a good solution to this at http://www.deliberate.com/ , however, I won't have time to set this up this week for a demonstration (unless someone wants to pay my bills). Basically, anyone can set-up polls, or watch the results as the poll progresses. Poll responses go to a special database, not to the whole group, and can be given three different levels of privacy, and different types of formats. It's much more secure than a web based solution, and combined with the well know discussion capabilities of email lists, it's a winner.

Jonathan

Tyler

Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote:

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Hi Bike Board Technical Committee,

I'm going to demonstrate a poll via an email list. Respond either "yes" or "no" to my question below, and send your response to bikeboard@cheat.org .

Question: Do you like this method of taking a poll?

Jonathan

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