popularity-contest spyware! :)

[Jason Straight]

On Tuesday 18 October 2005 15:35, Will H. Backman wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-
> > bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Jason Straight
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 3:32 PM
> > To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions
> > Subject: popularity-contest spyware! :)
> >
> > I was surprised to see this package while searching for POP daemons
>
> with
>
> > synaptic. While it doesn't really bother me personally I am a little
> > dismayed
> > that such a package would be installed by default w/o users knowing.
>
> This
>
> > is
> > borderline spyware as a standard install.
>
> Installed doesn't mean enabled.

Yeah, I see now that it's not enabled. I'm not paranoid about it anyway, just 
seemed like an odd thing for any linux distro to include by default - were it 
enabled. I wouldn't even disable it had it been enabled, I was just surprised 
when I thought it was on by default.


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