> On 06/07/15 19:12, Joe Greco wrote: > >> Terrible idea. These are the kind of features that should be opt in, and > >> Microsoft could have done that instead. > > > > It *is* an option. > > Opt-in and opt-out are two models of having an option. > > Also I meant being opt-out for the network administrator regarding the > availability of the _optout suffix. Instead it should have been opt-in > by the use of some _share suffix.
No, it should have been opt-in by the use of some standards-track mechanism. Substituting less-screwed for more-screwed is still just screwed at the end of the day. > > Anyways, if you look on the first page of "Customize settings", yes > > there's an option for "Automatically connect to networks shared by my > > contacts" and it CAN be turned off, but it defaults to on. > > That's an option for the users, not for the network administrator. That's unclear. It is likely settable as policy at some level. I'm not going to defend Microsoft since I think it is total crap, but I am not going to be totally unfair about it. > As a network administrator (at home, at work, whatever) I have some > trust for my users but not necessarily for the friends of my users. The > decision should be up to the network administrator, not the user. > > The way it's implemented, user inaction makes him/her violate network > usage policy. Unclear at best. The way it is implemented, the user has the potential to go either way. A network might not want the user to have the choice, clearly, but there is certainly a subset of users who will opt out of the feature and I cannot see how those would be in violation of any sane network usage policy. It's certainly a mess in any case. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
