>>I was just at a big companies web site. What is being advertised in a "lottery" not a "contest". Lotteries involve luck, contest are based on skill. Excluding participants from a lottery, does not invalidate the winners. Excluding participants in a contest does.
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>Way to go.

Gulp. I don't think you have read my follow-up message. I wasn't quite clued into what was going on when I wrote this.

I think my off topic comments were taken as sarcasm.

I will send you a private email in a couple of minutes with some thoughts.