On Oct 21, 2010, at 03:41:32, [email protected] wrote:
> Surely an external banlist, host on growl.info eg. would be better than a 
> hard-coded list, as you could update as apps were identified?

Anyone running Little Snitch would be alarmed when Growl seemingly tried to 
“call home”.

> Anyway, I’m not entirely sure this would end up helping terribly much; I can 
> envisage it frustrating users who actually want the notifications.

Yeah, we'd have to document it.

> Also, I seem to recall a large proportion of the users who have come to us so 
> far seem to only have become ‘aware’ of growl upon seeing the growl update 
> notification, which presumably would not be on your blacklist ;)

True. Like I said, the main target I had in mind was Adobe's ad notifications.

> I would suggest for the fresh install side of things, that perhaps all that 
> may be needed is a first-run “Welcome to Growl” window?
> …
> 
> I admit it won’t help with the dropbox re-installing it problem, but at least 
> off the bat after the first time it installs, users are made aware of it so 
> it doesn’t come as a surprise later on.

I would expect even louder “WHAT THE F IS THIS S” screams here on the list from 
users presented with a “Welcome to Growl” dialog shortly after removing Growl.

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