Please participate in the Ubuntu Popularity Contest !

[Luis]

SUBMITURLS="http://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi"

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On 7/13/06, Andreas Rohlfs <arohlfs.listen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would like to participate, but I have a problem.
>
> I chose http as method for submitting the report.
> /etc/popularity-contest.conf has USEHTTP="yes".
>
> But the script still tries so send an mail to popcon at ubuntu.com. It is still
> in the mailqueue because our firewall does not let this server connect to
> mailservers outside our our network. (HTTP is allowed for this server).
>
> My /etc/popularity-contest.conf:
>
> MY_HOSTID="393f6c7d2ffd409396afa1c79264e166"
> PARTICIPATE="yes"
> USEHTTP="yes"
>
> Any hints?
>
>
> - Andreas
>
>
>
>
> On 7/13/06, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
> > = What is the Ubuntu Popularity Contest ? =
> >
> > The Ubuntu Popularity Contest (or popcon, in short) gathers statistics
> > on packages installed and used by users. Once a week, the
> > popularity-contest package submits data to a central server
> > (http://popcon.ubuntu.com/). The data is then processed anonymously to
> > generate the statistics available on http://popcon.ubuntu.com/.
> >
> > Popcon's data is of big importance to Ubuntu developers. Using it, they
> > know which packages are the most used ones, so they can prioritize some
> > tasks such as bug fixing, backporting new releases, etc.
> >
> > = How can I participate in popcon ? =
> >
> > Just reconfigure the popularity-contest (it is installed by default, but
> > disabled):
> >
> > sudo dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest
> >
> > = More information =
> > * http://popcon.ubuntu.com/
> > * /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/README.gz
> > * /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest/FAQ
> > * Debian's popcon : http://popcon.debian.org/
> >
> > --
> > ubuntu-users mailing list
> > ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
> >
>
>
> --
> ubuntu-users mailing list
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
>
>
>


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