Tony Peden wrote:
OK, ha, ha, funny, funny. Joke's over.
Curt, David: I humbly request that such patches not be accepted in the
future.
I really think that grabbing files off the network without explicit
permission from the user is a bad idea, even when it's all in good fun.
FlightGear is not, by nature, a network client or server by nature and
it's reasonable to expect, IMHO, that it won't initiate network activity
without the users explicit instructions to do so.
I definitely agree. It's a violation of almost every netiquette rule,
that is concerned to virus-like behaviour or bandwith respect of
others.
We also have users on 56k modems and, I believe, users who pay for
access by the minute and they should not be forced into a download
they don't want.
Even on fast connections, this kind of code is not, what it is
expected to be. And therefore, it is M$-like and only less
steps away from doing something really nasty.
M.
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