English (was Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year)

2003-03-25 Thread Joey Hess
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Here is how I undesrtanfd the Shall/Will distinction: > > Shall is used to express the simple future for first person I > and we, as in "Shall we meet by the river?" Will would be used > in the simple future for all other persons. Using will in the

English (was Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year)

2003-03-25 Thread Joey Hess
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Here is how I undesrtanfd the Shall/Will distinction: > > Shall is used to express the simple future for first person I > and we, as in "Shall we meet by the river?" Will would be used > in the simple future for all other persons. Using will in the

Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year

2003-03-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>> On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:13:33 +0100 (CET), >> Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava: >> Why is it harsh? I certainly did not mean it to be. It was meant >> to be a statement of fact. > Okay, the use of "shall" instead of "will" just sounded very weird > to me. But th

Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year

2003-03-25 Thread Peter Karlsson
Manoj Srivastava: > Why is it harsh? I certainly did not mean it to be. It was > meant to be a statement of fact. Okay, the use of "shall" instead of "will" just sounded very weird to me. But then again, English is not my mother tongue, so I might just have misunderstood it. > Conta

Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year

2003-03-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>> On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:13:33 +0100 (CET), >> Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava: >> Why is it harsh? I certainly did not mean it to be. It was meant >> to be a statement of fact. > Okay, the use of "shall" instead of "will" just sounded very weird > to me. But th

Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year

2003-03-24 Thread Peter Karlsson
Manoj Srivastava: > Why is it harsh? I certainly did not mean it to be. It was > meant to be a statement of fact. Okay, the use of "shall" instead of "will" just sounded very weird to me. But then again, English is not my mother tongue, so I might just have misunderstood it. > Conta

Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year

2003-03-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>> On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:21:33 +0100 (CET), >> Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava: >> Bottom line, so far there is no way to encrypt a ballot, and >> encrypting it to my key means it shan't get counted. > That statement sounds a bit harsh. That it *will* not get cou

Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year

2003-03-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>> On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:21:33 +0100 (CET), >> Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava: >> Bottom line, so far there is no way to encrypt a ballot, and >> encrypting it to my key means it shan't get counted. > That statement sounds a bit harsh. That it *will* not get cou

Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year

2003-03-24 Thread Peter Karlsson
Manoj Srivastava: > Bottom line, so far there is no way to encrypt a ballot, and > encrypting it to my key means it shan't get counted. That statement sounds a bit harsh. That it *will* not get counted I can live with, but that it *shall* not? Oh well. Maybe it's just me. Anyway, I just t

Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year

2003-03-24 Thread Peter Karlsson
Manoj Srivastava: > Bottom line, so far there is no way to encrypt a ballot, and > encrypting it to my key means it shan't get counted. That statement sounds a bit harsh. That it *will* not get counted I can live with, but that it *shall* not? Oh well. Maybe it's just me. Anyway, I just t

Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year

2003-03-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>> On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:30:01 +0100 (CET), >> Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava: >> gpg: verify signatures failed: unexpected data Encrypted Ballot 1 > Uh, I thank that's me. Does this mean that one cannot cast the > votes secretly, but must send them unencrypted?

Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year

2003-03-23 Thread Peter Karlsson
Manoj Srivastava: > gpg: verify signatures failed: unexpected data > Encrypted Ballot 1 Uh, I thank that's me. Does this mean that one cannot cast the votes secretly, but must send them unencrypted? Or did I use the wrong key (I used your personal key as the r

Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year

2003-03-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 07:41:04PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > It was suggested that I also post the mailers that were used > > in successfully sending a ballot to the voting engine, and here are > > the results. I am att

Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year

2003-03-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>> On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:30:01 +0100 (CET), >> Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava: >> gpg: verify signatures failed: unexpected data Encrypted Ballot 1 > Uh, I thank that's me. Does this mean that one cannot cast the > votes secretly, but must send them unencrypted?

Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year

2003-03-23 Thread Jérôme Marant
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > It was suggested that I also post the mailers that were used > in successfully sending a ballot to the voting engine, and here are > the results. I am attaching both the list of good mailers, as well > as the reasons for rejectio

Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year

2003-03-23 Thread Peter Karlsson
Manoj Srivastava: > gpg: verify signatures failed: unexpected data > Encrypted Ballot 1 Uh, I thank that's me. Does this mean that one cannot cast the votes secretly, but must send them unencrypted? Or did I use the wrong key (I used your personal key as the r

Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year

2003-03-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, It was suggested that I also post the mailers that were used in successfully sending a ballot to the voting engine, and here are the results. I am attaching both the list of good mailers, as well as the reasons for rejection of the ballot, with the MUA and count. I note

Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year

2003-03-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 07:41:04PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > It was suggested that I also post the mailers that were used > > in successfully sending a ballot to the voting engine, and here are > > the results. I am att

Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year

2003-03-23 Thread Jérôme Marant
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > It was suggested that I also post the mailers that were used > in successfully sending a ballot to the voting engine, and here are > the results. I am attaching both the list of good mailers, as well > as the reasons for rejectio

Re: High Rate of ballot rejections this year

2003-03-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, It was suggested that I also post the mailers that were used in successfully sending a ballot to the voting engine, and here are the results. I am attaching both the list of good mailers, as well as the reasons for rejection of the ballot, with the MUA and count. I note

High Rate of ballot rejections this year

2003-03-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Concerned about the high number of rejected ballots, I want and manually checked them out. Here are the annotated notes I took, sorted fiurst by gpg error message, then by the type of MIME encoding, and finally, by the sending MUA. I must confess I am impressed by mutt. 140

High Rate of ballot rejections this year

2003-03-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Concerned about the high number of rejected ballots, I want and manually checked them out. Here are the annotated notes I took, sorted fiurst by gpg error message, then by the type of MIME encoding, and finally, by the sending MUA. I must confess I am impressed by mutt. 140