On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 08:56:02AM +0200, houghi wrote: > On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 08:19:45AM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote: > > - You can restrict the information it sends on your > > hardware and system to a minimum. > > For some people minimum is still too much, although it is very obvious > that the data that is send has only statistical use. The moment you send > somebody something, they will see your IP. The use for this is to see e.g. > in what countries how much is downloaded.
The timezone is actually used to determine the mirror you get. Just like before, except before it was done on every YOU call. > That all said, it is very easy not to register by selecting 'later'. > Naturaly by testing the internetconnection, you already give away your IP > adress. This has not changed from the previous versions, except we downloaded the mirrorlist on every you start. You could be behind a proxy too which hides your ip address. Your provider likely has one. Ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
