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On Friday 22 October 2004 10:13 pm, Mike wrote: |
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> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:00:55 +0000, Luke-Jr <luke-jr@×××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > On Friday 22 October 2004 9:56 pm, Andrew Fant wrote: |
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> > > I'm not sure that I would call that a cool benefit. It seems to come |
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> > > close to an egregious violation of privacy. I know that there is no |
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> > > promise of confidentiality in the use of the portage rsync servers, but |
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> > > to actively and publicly start collecting data about who is using what |
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> > > seems to only invite more paranoia. |
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> > |
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> > Except that it won't be able to reliably collect the "who" part, only the |
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> > "what". Sure, you could log IPs, but many users IPs change more |
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> > frequently than they sync. |
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> Even the what won't be reliable, as it won't show all of us who use |
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> emerge-webrsync due to firewall restrictions. |
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It would be a decent sample, though. Which is a positive thing, IMO... |
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I recall when I was a developer I was wondering whether a pkg was ready for |
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stable or if simply nobody had tried it... In that case, it was a |
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not-so-common server, so I wouldn't be surprised if all the people using it |
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stuck w/ stable version... |
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Luke-Jr |
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Developer, Utopios |
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http://utopios.org/ |