On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 08:27:59PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > David Nusinow wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 07:44:53PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > >> > >> The problem I see here is that admin != user in all the situations. > >> IMO it should ask, or at least warn, the user and not the admin. > >> Because in the end is the user's privacy the one affected, not the > >> administrator's. > > > > You want each package to notify each user? How do you recommend this > > actually be carried out? Patching every program? > > Using the program's settings facilities. > All it has to do is check if the user has already been warned and if not do > it, of course only when the program is run. > > If there's no easy way to do it then just for the sake of simplicity a patch > rewriting the 'phoning home' function should be written. > > IMHO that sounds more reasonable than letting the admin decide about the > users privacy.
I think just patching the program to default to not phoning home by default, rather than something more elaborate and potentially bug-prone to warn (read: annoy) them when they're going to phone home is a better solution. Just give the user a sane default and let them change it if they want. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
