open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/642

Posting a poll and specifying a maximum number of answers per ballot (e.g. limiting to 1 answer out of 4 possible answers), when that poll message is subsequently imported into QWKnet nodes, it appears that user can cast ballots with more the maximum number of votes per ballot (i.e. selecting more answers than the pollster desired).
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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/642#note_4223

In the problematic sighting, the poll-message in question does appear to be represented correctly in the exported VOTING.DAT file (in the QWK packet), note the "MaxVotes" value:

[35380]
[poll:<65077630.17994.dove-hlp@vert.synchro.net>]
Utf8 = false
MaxVotes = 1
Results = 1
Comment0 = (it's not your USB stick and you don't know where it came from) PollAnswer0 = Take it home and plug it into my personal computer
PollAnswer1 = Take it work and plug it into my work computer
PollAnswer2 = Take it to Walmart and plug it into a computer for sale PollAnswer3 = Pick it up and throw it in a trash bin
PollAnswer4 = Give it away as a gift
PollAnswer5 = Call the police
PollAnswer6 = Nothing
Subject: You find a USB stick on the ground in public, what do you do? WhenWritten: 20230917145704-0700 c1e0
Sender: Digital Man
Conference: 2005

So this seems to indicate a problem on the import side rather than the export side.
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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/642#note_4224

Oh, it just occurred to me. Those responding to the poll with greater than the allowed number of answers are likely using DDMsgReader.

Hey @nightfox, is DDMsgReader adhering to a poll-message's vote limit (max number of answers per ballot) or just allowing user's ballots to contain as many answers as the user would like?
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