Popularity Contest

[Ed Fletcher]

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Matt Zimmerman wrote:
| On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 10:21:09PM -0800, Ed Fletcher wrote:
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|>I was looking for something else in Synaptic and came across
|>popularity-contest.  It was installed, so I got curious and had a look
|>at it.  It turns out that it's run by cron.weekly and lists all the
|>packages on your system, sorts them by how recently they've been
|>accessed and emails the results to survey at popcon.debian.org
|
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| If you look a bit closer, you'll find that it's disabled by default,
and in
| fact does not send anything unless you explicitly turn it on.  This has
| always been the case in Ubuntu.
|
| Note also that Ubuntu popularity-contest submissions are sent to
Ubuntu, not
| to Debian.
|

As a matter of fact, I did try to see if it had a way to turn it off.
Couldn't see one.  How can I see that it's inactive?

Ed
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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?  -  Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

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