On Oct 21, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Which is gone in some updates already 


>> 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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