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

2003-03-24 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

2003-03-25 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: prize dept

2003-09-16 Thread Peter Karlsson
Christine Stockdale: > So, where's the prize? There's a list of awards and prizes won by Debian at http://www.debian.org/misc/awards>. If we've missed any, feel free to contact debian-www@lists.debian.org with the details. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond

Re: Proposed ballot for the constitutional amendment

2003-10-15 Thread Peter Karlsson
Manoj Srivastava: > If people cannot understand: > "Do _NOT_ encrypt your ballot; the voting mechanism shall not be > able to decrypt your message." > they should not be getting a say in amending our constitution. To me, the meaning seems clear: The voting software is located in

Re: Proposed ballot for the constitutional amendment

2003-10-15 Thread Peter Karlsson
Manoj Srivastava: > I think you need a better grammar book. > I shall ... They will. > I will ... They shall. I thought your intent was to use it in the sense that it is not going to have the option (passive), which would be "it will not", not the sense that you do not want it to have

Re: , and the HTML 4 DTD (was: Re: RFD: amendment of Debian Social Contract)

2003-10-31 Thread Peter Karlsson
Richard Braakman: > The +(INS|DEL) part means that INS and DEL can occur anywhere in > a BODY or its children. Yes, but they can only contain block or inline content, of which LI is neither. UL can contain an INS, yes, but an INS cannot contain an LI. validator.w3.org has validates using the SGM

Re: Rappel pour les abonnements aux listes sur udius.com

2003-12-01 Thread Peter Karlsson
Anthony DeRobertis: > Anyone know why, exactly, we're subscribed to this list? Spam? Yes. There were more Debian lists that got the notice. I've seen this before with other lists that were used to send spam. I kept logging in and deleteting the lists from the intereface, and the operators kept ad

Re: Secret votes HOWTO

2001-04-01 Thread peter karlsson
Anton Zinoviev: > > VoteNumber: 159 <-- this is new information. Standard procedure to do secret votes in other communities where secret electronic votes[1] have been wished has been for each voter to supply their own secret password (any alphanumeric string), which was then published along wit

Re: Secret votes HOWTO

2001-04-01 Thread peter karlsson
Raul Miller: > This makes a lot of sense, and (with the addition of a system > supplied counter) is basically what John Robinson proposed. Yes. I just wanted to tell you what has already been done elsewhere. I just forgot that the list of who voted should also be listed, separate to the list of

Re: Transcript of the Debate

2002-04-04 Thread peter karlsson
Martin Schulze: > http://beta.hardware.no/~tfheen/debian-debate.{html,txt} Hmmm, could someone please decrypt the aliases used so I can know who says what? -- \\// peter - I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law

Re: Transcript of the Debate

2002-04-05 Thread peter karlsson
Anthony DeRobertis: > Hmmm? See time stamp 15:05. After that they are called 'bdale', > 'Branden', and 'Raphael' Ahh. I see. I only looked at the first page and saw the aliases. Silly me... -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swed

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

2003-03-24 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: > 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: prize dept

2003-09-15 Thread Peter Karlsson
Christine Stockdale: > So, where's the prize? There's a list of awards and prizes won by Debian at http://www.debian.org/misc/awards>. If we've missed any, feel free to contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the details. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail w

Re: Proposed ballot for the constitutional amendment

2003-10-14 Thread Peter Karlsson
Manoj Srivastava: > If people cannot understand: > "Do _NOT_ encrypt your ballot; the voting mechanism shall not be > able to decrypt your message." > they should not be getting a say in amending our constitution. To me, the meaning seems clear: The voting software is located in

Re: Proposed ballot for the constitutional amendment

2003-10-15 Thread Peter Karlsson
Manoj Srivastava: > I think you need a better grammar book. > I shall ... They will. > I will ... They shall. I thought your intent was to use it in the sense that it is not going to have the option (passive), which would be "it will not", not the sense that you do not want it to have

Re: , and the HTML 4 DTD (was: Re: RFD: amendment of Debian Social Contract)

2003-10-31 Thread Peter Karlsson
Richard Braakman: > The +(INS|DEL) part means that INS and DEL can occur anywhere in > a BODY or its children. Yes, but they can only contain block or inline content, of which LI is neither. UL can contain an INS, yes, but an INS cannot contain an LI. validator.w3.org has validates using the SGM

Re: Rappel pour les abonnements aux listes sur udius.com

2003-12-01 Thread Peter Karlsson
Anthony DeRobertis: > Anyone know why, exactly, we're subscribed to this list? Spam? Yes. There were more Debian lists that got the notice. I've seen this before with other lists that were used to send spam. I kept logging in and deleteting the lists from the intereface, and the operators kept ad

Re: Secret votes HOWTO

2001-04-01 Thread peter karlsson
Anton Zinoviev: > > VoteNumber: 159 <-- this is new information. Standard procedure to do secret votes in other communities where secret electronic votes[1] have been wished has been for each voter to supply their own secret password (any alphanumeric string), which was then published along with

Re: Secret votes HOWTO

2001-04-01 Thread peter karlsson
Raul Miller: > This makes a lot of sense, and (with the addition of a system > supplied counter) is basically what John Robinson proposed. Yes. I just wanted to tell you what has already been done elsewhere. I just forgot that the list of who voted should also be listed, separate to the list of v

Re: Transcript of the Debate

2002-04-04 Thread peter karlsson
Martin Schulze: > http://beta.hardware.no/~tfheen/debian-debate.{html,txt} Hmmm, could someone please decrypt the aliases used so I can know who says what? -- \\// peter - I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law:

Re: Transcript of the Debate

2002-04-05 Thread peter karlsson
Anthony DeRobertis: > Hmmm? See time stamp 15:05. After that they are called 'bdale', > 'Branden', and 'Raphael' Ahh. I see. I only looked at the first page and saw the aliases. Silly me... -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedi