On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 07:05:37PM -0700, Alex Perry wrote: > > > > I definitely agree. It's a violation of almost every netiquette rule, > > > > that is concerned to virus-like behaviour or bandwith respect of > > > > others. > > > > > > I disagree. Almost _every_ new Microsoft-based program checks its home > > > website, sometimes for logging and sometimes anonymous as in this case. > > > > And that somehow makes it right? > > No, I take the viewpoint that "netiquette" is what the majority accept. > Therefore, I don't think the proposed rule exists and thus was not broken. >
Fair enough. I take the view that every network transaction shares information about me (sometimes more, sometimes less). Therefore, I should always have the opportunity to authorize network transactions ahead of time, unless it's clearly understood that that's what a particular app does, such as a web browser. > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Tony Peden [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great ... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. -- attributed to Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
