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PowerDesk (0578-PW)
PL2006 PROGRAM BALLOT
To vote for a program or programs: LEAVE ONLY THOSE PROGRAMS THAT YOU WISH TO VOTE FOR. Remove all programs that you do NOT wish to vote for.
Susan said:223 programs on the ballot
105 ballots, 101 voters, 4450 votes
avg. votes per program = 20
Ad-Aware and Irfanview tied for the top place with 67 votes each (66 percent)
Here are some more statistics based on
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/ftp/Archives/2006PL/PL2006ProgramVote.txt
This shows show many programs (P) got each number of votes (V),
e.g. 13 programs got 1 vote and 2 programs got 67 votes.
year no program with 3 or fewer votes was added to the PW list,
every program with 8 or more votes was added and programs with
4, 5, 6 or 7 votes were or were not added presumably depending on
how crowded their category was.
How are you doing the analysis? The lowest number of votes any program
received was 5 - see the distribution below - or the nominations page:
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2006/2006PL-Nominations.php?sortby=(V)
The voting thread was *very* clean this year. Many thanks to all.
Susan
I am using an R program. I just double checked it based on your
comment and
the problem appears to be that I was assuming that each time a program
was
listed in the txt file on the PWH site:
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/ftp/Archives/2006PL/PL2006ProgramVote.txt
that it was listed exactly in the same way but I see that that is not
the
case.
I have modified my script to use the Program ID instead of the entire
label
(where the Program ID is the portion in parentheses). Using that
modification
it gives the same value as yours:
Susan Bugher said:The votes are in and tallied. Preliminary Pricelessware selections will
be posted later today or tomorrow.
I've uploaded a file with a record of the votes that were cast - listed
alphabetically by email address.
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/ftp/Archives/2006PL/PL2006ProgramVote.txt
If I made a mistake or MISSED your ballot please let me know ASAP.
The voting thread was *very* clean this year. Many thanks to all.
Susan
Susan said:PL2006 PROGRAM BALLOT
VOTING (1 week): November 1 - November 7, 2005
The Nominations page is here:
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2006/2006PL-Nominations.php
NOTE: There is no Ware Ballot this year.
NOTE: If you vote and later wish to vote for additional programs cast a
second ballot. Both ballots will be counted.
NOTE: Write-in votes are not allowed.
To vote for a program or programs: LEAVE ONLY THOSE PROGRAMS THAT YOU
WISH TO VOTE FOR. Remove all programs that you do NOT wish to vote for.
2xExplorer (0007-PW)>
All-Purpose Spell Checker (APSC) (0040-PW))
ALZip (4001)
AM-DeadLink (0017-PW)>
Any Password (0056)
Audacity (0069-PW)>
AutoStreamer (3478)
AVA FIND (0022)
avast! (0897-PW)
AVG Anti-Virus System (0023-PW)>
CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) (3034)
CDex (0109-PW)>
dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC) (0898-PW)>
Dependency Walker (0197-PW)
Emergency Recovery Utility NT (ERUNT) (0245-PW)>
FastStone Image Viewer (3592)>
FileZilla (0281-PW)>
FLAC (4002)>
GSpot (0311-PW)>
IrfanView (0391-PW)
IZArc (0365-PW)>
KeyNote (0410-PW))
LAME (compiled) (0416-PW)
LeechFTP (0422-PW)>
MD5Summer (2024)
Media Player Classic (0449-PW)>
MozBackup (2110-PW)
Mozilla Firefox (was Mozilla Firebird) (was Phoenix) (0473-PW)
Mozilla Thunderbird (0474-PW)>
Net Transport (2161)>
NoteTab Light (0503-PW)>
OpenOffice.org (0520-PW)>
PhotoFiltre (2286-PW)
Quintessential Player (QCD) (0607-PW)>
Rainlendar (2389)>
Script Defender (0658-PW)>
Spybot Search & Destroy (0710-PW)
SpywareBlaster (0711-PW)>
TMPGEnc (0748-PW)
Total Uninstall (0777-PW)>
Ultimate Boot CD for Windows (UBCD4Win) (was Windows Ultimate Boot CD)
(3476-PW)>
VirtualDub (0812-PW)
WinAmp Classic (0844-PW)>
XMPlay (0868)>
Yankee Clipper III (0881-PW)
ZipGenius (0889-PW)
ZoneAlarm (Zone Alarm) (0893-PW)
µTorrent (4015)
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There were 12 posts in this thread on that day (7 Nov).
All of them by posters with unfamiliair names.
isileth, (e-mail address removed), Prozac, Maurizio Catalano, Malossi47,
Aragon, KinetiK, (e-mail address removed), Danix, LittleEndian,
(e-mail address removed), Albirosso
Some of them starting in Italian with "Susan Bugher ha scritto:" .
All of them support ZipGenius, alone or amongst other programs.
Looks to me like someone was desperately trying to get ZipGenius in.
There were 12 posts in this thread on that day (7 Nov).
All of them by posters with unfamiliair names.
Some of them starting in Italian with "Susan Bugher ha scritto:" .
Looks to me like someone was desperately trying to get ZipGenius in.
B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson said:On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:47:42 +0100, Sietse Fliege wrote:
[ZipGenius (0889-PW)]There were 12 posts in this thread on that day (7 Nov).
All of them by posters with unfamiliair names.
Yes. Noted that, too.
Some of them starting in Italian with "Susan Bugher ha scritto:" .
Remind: The program is of Italian origin. Therefore one can understand
the program being especially popular in Italy. Suspicious seems the
concentration you wrote about, though.
First I thought of some kind of 'beg for support' notice inside the
ZipGenius forum. They did this last year to get ZipGenius onto the
PW list. But a quick search didn't come up with such a post.
Another possibility (which I now think most likely) is arranged voting
of a group: Somebody may have talked his/her comrades (classmates,...)
into voting. That would be gray area because all those people might
read acf on a regular basis. And all of them might like ZipGenius. In
that case the votes would have to be counted as 'okay'.
I don't know if one can forge NNTP-Posting-Host when posting via
GoogleGroups. Maybe someone using that service can set this straight?
If that isn't (too easily) possible, than all posts in question come
from different sources. The IP addresses even refer to different
providers (Telecom Italia, IUNet Infostrada) and to different setups
(dial-up 'Net' / ADSL). Further on, different net areas seem to be
involved. There are references to ADSL-3 and ADSL-5 of Telecom Italia
and to BNET37, BNET41, BNET47 of IUNet.
Especially interesting is klingon666. Although the post seems of
Italian origin ('Susan Bugher ha scritto') it is sent from Japan
(Japan Network Information Center). - If the Posting-Host IP inside
the header is okay.
Although the posts also could have been set via hacked systems, I
don't think that too likely.
Looks to me like someone was desperately trying to get ZipGenius in.
If a single person sent all those posts, a considerable amount of
work was necessary. Maybe we should honor that? ;-)
BeAr
There were 12 posts in this thread on that day (7 Nov).
All of them by posters with unfamiliair names.
isileth, (e-mail address removed), Prozac, Maurizio Catalano, Malossi47,
Aragon, KinetiK, (e-mail address removed), Danix, LittleEndian,
(e-mail address removed), Albirosso
Some of them starting in Italian with "Susan Bugher ha scritto:" .
All of them support ZipGenius, alone or amongst other programs.
Looks to me like someone was desperately trying to get ZipGenius in.
Rob said:1by1 (0003-PW)
AbiWord (0024-PW)
Autoruns (1146)
avast! (0897-PW)
Bulk Rename Utility (1236)
CDCheck (0108-PW)
CDex (0109-PW)
Chainsaw (0127-PW)
All of them by posters with unfamiliair names.
isileth, (e-mail address removed), Prozac, Maurizio Catalano, Malossi47,
Aragon, KinetiK, (e-mail address removed), Danix, LittleEndian,
(e-mail address removed), Albirosso
Some of them starting in Italian with "Susan Bugher ha scritto:" .
All of them support ZipGenius, alone or amongst other programs.
Looks to me like someone was desperately trying to get ZipGenius in.
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