Re: Pollster: Thank you to testers.

IMO this is targeted spam mail. Helping these guys do product/usability
testing for free is what anyone responding to this has done. Notice it
isn't even signed by a human being! Signed  by a development team???!!

I find this objectionable.

Kayla the grouch

At 11:08 AM 7/25/98 EDT, Pollb2(at)aol.com wrote:
>Hello,
>
>We would like to personally thank the number of webmasters on this list that
>have helped out with the Pollster.  Thanks to suggestions from testers,
>Pollster has been through a major upgrade since the first beta and now
>includes exciting new features such as a Remote Administrator applet and an
>auto-email notification feature that gives administrators a valuable warning
>system when trouble arises.
>
>For those that are not familiar with Pollster:  Pollster simplifies and
>automates the process of creating and conducting online polls. Written in
100%
>pure Java, Pollster can be used on any Java capable platform, avoiding the
>need for complicated scripts.  Pollster server and applet modules are fully
>customizable, providing a powerful and flexible solution to conducting polls
>online. 
>
>
>List of features supported in Pollster final beta
>
>Pollster Server 
>- Intuitive and practical user interface 
>- Real-time server statistics 
>- Server side caching for fast responses 
>- Extensive problem logging 
>- Full save and print capability 
>- Server backup functionality 
>- Auto-restore from backup on startup 
>- Auto-email notification of server problems 
>- Ability to temporarily start and stop the server 
>- Full HTML documentation
>
>Pollster Client Applet 
>- Dynamic poll loading from the server 
>- Option for displaying real-time results 
>- Duplicate user checking 
>- Server side tracking of user/email to votes 
>- Compatible with Java v1.0 and v1.1 
>- Thin client for fast applet downloads (12K) 
>
>Remote Administrator Applet 
>- Remote extension to server: Start, Stop, Backup, and Shutdown
functionality 
>- Viewing of results and server status 
>- Password protection 
>- Server side logging of all Remote Administrator commands 
>- Compatible with Java v1.0 and v1.1 
>- Thin client for fast applet downloads (12K) 
>
>
>Benchmarks
>
>We conducted a timing/performance benchmark to see how well the Pollster
>server handles large volumes of connections.
>
>The test was conducted on a) a midrange 300mhz PentiumII running WinNT 4.0
and
>b) a low-end 166mhz Pentium PC running Windows95.  A specially designed
applet
>was written to connect with the Pollster server and process votes while
>reading back real-time results.  Here is what we found:
>
>Test 1 - Query server for poll items
>- used when the Pollster client dynamically displays a poll
>Machine a) 1000 queries processed in: 12 seconds
>Machine b) 1000 queries processed in: 21 seconds
>
>Test 2 - Process votes and get real-time results
>- used when the Pollster client processes a vote on the server and gets
>back real-time results
>Machine a) 1000 votes processed in: 46 seconds
>Machine b) 1000 votes processed in: 70 seconds
>
>
>Again, we would like to thank the testers on this list for helping out and we
>welcome others that would like to test Pollster final beta.
>
>Thank you for your time.
>- Pollster dev. team
>
>

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