On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 01:38:40AM -0000, Jim Wilson wrote: > Well I knew it was there and forgot about it. I always run from a text window > so a quick CTRL+C closed the player and saved my bandwidth. Seems to me that > Curt meant it as a joke, no harm intended, albeit a little less gratifying for > modem users. It's only for one day. So my suggestion is lighten up and stay > away from the Microsoft products ;-). > > Now that we're all concerned about wasting our _own_ bandwidth...I'm wondering > what Curt's bandwidth stats look like! > > Oh and...this is like "spyware". Isn't it possible to find how many people > ran FG today? Maybe even "who" ran flight gear today :-)
Indeed. > > Best, > > Jim > > Tony Peden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > 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
