Matt,
here's some additional information about this issue, as quoted on the "recent news" of
www.mycgiserver.com:
"2000-12-04 07:56:51 CET
As some people contacted us what was going on with the current survey (the PostgreSQL
vote significantly decreased from one second to another), we'd like to inform you,
that, after some additional research, this correction from our side turned out to be
unjustified.
The decrease was initially done because of a suspicion of mass-voting for the item in
question. However, the tremendious vote increase for PostgreSQL was caused by a group
of PostgreSQL supporters rather than abusive behavior."
> We just saw an interesting event... we took it upon ourselves to
> frequently check the current tally by writing a shell script to
> "fetch" it at 30 second intervals...
> !531 marauder@bofh:~$ florida
> 1<nobr><b>1496
> 2<nobr><b>1497
> 3<nobr><b>1498
> 4<nobr><b>1499
> 5<nobr><b>1501
> 6<nobr><b>1502
> 7<nobr><b>454
> 8<nobr><b>455
> 9<nobr><b>456
> The sneaky bastards tampered with the voting tallies!