Yeah, the registration was painless and enough options to disable it
annoying you. Count my vote cast for PostgreSQL. I encourage everyone
else to do the same. In the big picture, marketing statements like this
survey mean alot more than most technical folks want to acknowledge.
Please vote for your favorite database.
Charlie
Peter Childs wrote:
>On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>
>
>>Just got this in my mailbox:
>>
>>2002 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards:
>>
>>http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=78a8c06fbc1dcecd52597decd6c56ad8&threadid=39870
>>
>>And we are way behind MySQL (like, d'ah!):
>>
>>http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/poll.php?s=78a8c06fbc1dcecd52597decd6c56ad8&action=showresults&pollid=168
>>
>>The problem, of course, is that you have to be a registered member to
>>vote, so its not an 'open poll' ...
>>
>>
>>---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
>>TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
>>
>>
>>
>
> Open Poll? Its free to register, so really its to try and stop
>people voting twice. They don't even want that much data just your E-Mail
>address. (The rest is optional)
> The problem with Web Polls is that people can always vote more
>than once making any result totally meaning less what ever you do.
>Ensuring an election is anoumous, free and fare is VERY difficult.
>
>Peter Childs
>
>
>---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
>TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command
> (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org)
>
>
--
Charles H. Woloszynski
ClearMetrix, Inc.
115 Research Drive
Bethlehem, PA 18015
tel: 610-419-2210 x400
fax: 240-371-3256
web: www.clearmetrix.com