[fab] Re: Firefox splash page tracker

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Fri Oct 6 14:11:54 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 09:48 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > that's more invasive than I think we should be.
> > 
> > we can count the total number of connections and we can count the
> > connections to which distro and on which days.
> > 
> > But we SHOULD NOT track a given ip to figure out what they're doing
> > and/or when.
> > 
> > That's inappropriate and I will resist it.
> 
> I'm not that interested in the what or the who - just the if.  That is, 
> are they using it?  That's it.

Then choose your terminology much more carefully. It sounds a lot like
you're interested in individual ips/users and when they interact with
the system.

-sv





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