🚀 go-pugleaf

Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> wrote:

>billman@centcon.com (William Rini) wrote:
>>Do you feel unable to answer "No" when the registration wizard asks if
>>you would like to register online?  That's all you have to do people,
>>just answer "No"  But it sounds as if people claiming to be everything
>>from super hackers to system administrators haven't figured out how to
>>use that button.
>>

>I know that I could very easily write a dialog with "yes" and "no"
>buttons and then do whatever I please based upon which button was
>pressed.  Maybe when you press YES it sends the data right away, but
>when you press NO it waits and dribbles the data back over time.

>Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean that Microsoft isn't out to
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^...   
>get me.  That data would be extremely usefull to have, and I wouldn't
>put it past Microsoft to try to get it.

Paraphrazed from another Seattle giant ;p

If the wizard is that much of a problem, pull the phone cord.  Do you
really think that MS has come up with a method of sending your
computer's information without any connection.

BTW, Winfax does the same thing.

Brandon
Soleil@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu