Tony Peden wrote: > OK, ha, ha, funny, funny. Joke's over. > > Curt, David: I humbly request that such patches not be accepted in the > future. > > I really think that grabbing files off the network without explicit > permission from the user is a bad idea, even when it's all in good fun. > FlightGear is not, by nature, a network client or server by nature and > it's reasonable to expect, IMHO, that it won't initiate network activity > without the users explicit instructions to do so.
I definitely agree. It's a violation of almost every netiquette rule, that is concerned to virus-like behaviour or bandwith respect of others. > > We also have users on 56k modems and, I believe, users who pay for > access by the minute and they should not be forced into a download > they don't want. Even on fast connections, this kind of code is not, what it is expected to be. And therefore, it is M$-like and only less steps away from doing something really nasty. M. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.martinhenne.de _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
