On 20-Apr-99 Christopher Sawtell wrote:
>> Bobby> I wonder if there is an easy way to get a ballpark estimate of
>> Bobby> how many people are using it.
>>
>> Put some trojan horse into it which sends messages to lyx.org when LyX
>> is used (along with the user's credit card number and password)? ;)
>
> Seriously, I would be more than happy to have my system send a packet to
> lyx's home to increment a counter during the 'make install'. It would be
> nice to let us know that that was going to happen so that we can turn on
> the Internet connection, and to give the folk with privacy paranoia the
> power of veto.
>
> I realise that this would only work for installations which are compiled
> from sources, but that would be a slightly meaningful statistic, wouldn't
> it?
When I installed an editor called Cooledit (from an RPM, as I am lazy
:) and ran it for the first time, it generated an E-mail saying, "Cooledit is
running on a so-and-so machine, with Linux-whatever." Of course, this E-mail
never got sent, since I am a dialup box and Sendmail still has not been told
about that fact (a project I just keep meaning to tackle)... but it was a good
idea. ;)
Moo...
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