On Feb 17, 2008 11:41 PM, <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
In a message dated 2/17/2008 7:53:40 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
wilydoppelganger(a)gmail.com writes:
Err, the number of individual human beings signing the petition
probably consists of several thousand now, given the recent publicity.
If you actually cared, it'd be pretty easy to parse the signatures
for duplicates and remove them - the signing bot isn't very subtle.>>
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My point being that they might be being deliberately deceptive. You can't
catch that with a de-dupper. I could sign any name I choose, and 15 different
ones. You wouldn't know.
Will Johnson
Err, in this specific case, the bot signing the petition appears to
randomly generate names, but use identical comments in the comment
field, which is how it became apparent to me in the first place that
this was going on.
Of course, it could just be copy-pasting, but as I recall the
originator of the petition was a computer science student in Pakistan,
so one can make educated guesses.
WilyD