> From: Bob Tellefson <lists_at_zooid.com> > >influential types watch these USA Today straw polls. > > > > I hope that no one pays too much attention to these types of polls. Online > polls are very unreliable. It is quite easy to vote multiple times, or > even to write a simple program to automate the voting process for you. As a matter of fact, they are bragging on rec.sport.jetski on doing exactly that... voting multiple times. I agree no one should take these polls seriously except that I have heard the media (CNN for one) actually quoting from these internet polls like they mean something. ???? The USA Today website has a feedback link where you can make comments or complaints to them ( http://survey.usatoday.com/cgi-bin/feedback.cgi ). The media is in a lot of hot water recently because of irresponsible and false reporting. Gee... what a surprise :-) Jackie *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jul 14 1998 - 09:31:50 PDT
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