jukola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Personal information is *not* needed to be sent anywhere for any reason. 
> Information about a particular crash, yes, but not a bunch of 

As others have repeatedly, repeatedly pointed out - the "information about
a particular crash" is a set of information that, at the time of the crash,
cannot be accurately qualified.

If you, programmatically, already know what information is needed to describe
the circumstances of a given bug, then by extension you already have a good
idea what the crash is and therefore the crash report itself is completely
unnecessary.

Talkback is a general-case program.  By definition, it is meant to be called
by a program into a potentially hostile environment, by a process that has
already become so corrupted it cannot continue to operate.  The kind of 
functionality you expect would GREATLY increase the size and complexity of
Talkback, and at the same time GREATLY reduce any effectiveness it would have
at all.

Not to mention that self-diagnosing programs and systems are by no means a
pedestrian section of computer science research at the moment.

In short, your expectations are unreasonable.  You can continue to insist
that you know what Talkback needs to report and what it doesn't, but that
doesn't change the fact that you have no basis for what you claim.  It is 
exactly like telling a police investigator what he does and does not need
to look at.  When you're the victim, fine; if you don't want his help, he
won't force it on you.  But don't expect a warm welcome if you follow him
from crime scene to crime scene, telling him how to do his job!

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Brandon Hume    - hume -> BOFH.Halifax.NS.Ca, http://WWW.BOFH.Halifax.NS.Ca/
                       -> Solaris Snob and general NOCMonkey 

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