Popularity Contest

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On Apr 3, 2005 2:21 PM, Ed Fletcher <ed at fletcher.ca> 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
> 
> Now I'm not against this in principle, but I'm not fond of information
> leaving my computer when I don't know anything about it.  I really think
> that participation in this program, worthy as it may be, should be on an
> opt-in basis.  This could easily be done during the install process so
> the user/sysadmin has the opportunity to make an informed choice.
> 
> Now maybe I was offered the choice back when I did the install many
> months ago.  If so then it's my fault for accepting and then forgetting.

I recently did an upgrade and it does ask for your permission. 


> ~ If not, then I think that this should be changed.
> 
> If this was being done by Microsoft, I doubt many people would be
> comfortable with it.
> 
> Ed
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Regards,
Russ