Wednesday, November 20, 2002, 6:09:39 PM, Thomas wrote: TF> No, you get privacy for the normal price (irrespective of the fact TF> that we have determined that this matter has nothing to do with TF> privacy). There is no extra fee for it.
I unfortunately haven't had the time to participate in this thread, though Allie did a great job of succinctly defending my side of the argument. I would like to point out, however, that this most certainly *is* a privacy issue, if only a very small one (small enough that I haven't bothered to alter my headers, after all). The 'educational' line in the x-mailer header gives out information about me that some people would otherwise not know. It's not a huge deal, but I wish the headers were more generic and did not provide information beyond which e-mail program I use. No other "educational" software that I use (e.g., MS products) identify themselves in such a way. As far as getting adequate privacy only for the "normal" price, would you still feel comfortable about it if TB! offered a discounted price for their software in exchange for letting them track your web-browsing habits, such that the people with the least wealth would be the most likely to succumb to such an invasion of privacy? That example is clearly orders of magnitude more extreme than the "educational" header issue, but the principle is the same. It is not nice to extort people into giving up personal information. By the way, after tomorrow morning I'll be out of town for a couple of weeks. So I won't get a chance to see the continuation (end) of this thread until then. I promise not to raise it from it's well-deserved grave when I get back :) -- Sean Using The Bat! v1.61 on Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
