[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: [sage-devel] Re: automatic sage upgrade notification?
On May 18, 10:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I HATE it when software phones home. There should be, at least, a config entry available to disable this behavior. And IMO, it should be disabled by default. Yes, Opt in is the way to go. Anything else is just plain EVIL(tm). The other suggestion about counting uniq IPs won't tell you much about the number of installations of SAGE either, because with my DSL connection at home I get a shiny new one every 24 hours. The same more or less applies to my IP at the office I get via dhcp. You could log the MACs, but let's just say that this isn't exactly nice either. Another possibility would be that people who use SAGE and like it should send an email to some specified address. Then somebody could send them back an email stating you are registered SAGE user #, similar to the Linux user counter one sees in signatures every once in a while. Should I venture a guess who will be SAGE user #1? Cheers, Michel --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[sage-devel] Re: Fwd: [sage-devel] Re: automatic sage upgrade notification?
I would like to register to use sage. Marshall Hampton, SAGE user #1 :) On May 18, 3:47 pm, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] dortmund.de wrote: On May 18, 10:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I HATE it when software phones home. There should be, at least, a config entry available to disable this behavior. And IMO, it should be disabled by default. Yes, Opt in is the way to go. Anything else is just plain EVIL(tm). The other suggestion about counting uniq IPs won't tell you much about the number of installations of SAGE either, because with my DSL connection at home I get a shiny new one every 24 hours. The same more or less applies to my IP at the office I get via dhcp. You could log the MACs, but let's just say that this isn't exactly nice either. Another possibility would be that people who use SAGE and like it should send an email to some specified address. Then somebody could send them back an email stating you are registered SAGE user #, similar to the Linux user counter one sees in signatures every once in a while. Should I venture a guess who will be SAGE user #1? Cheers, Michel --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
