MailScanner- tracking downlaods - a cautionary note

[Scott Silva]

on 10/3/2007 12:45 AM Quentin Campbell spake the following:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
>> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Scott Silva
>> Sent: 02 October 2007 16:29
>> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>> Subject: Re: MailScanner ANNOUNCE: 4.64.3 released
>>
> [snip]
> 
> Scott Silva said:
> 
>>> Jules
>> You can always add some sort of "phone home with permission" type of
>> thing to keep track of the installed base. Maybe something that sends
> back OS and
>> maybe a randomly generated and locally stored signature. That way you
> would
>> get a better idea of how many mailscanners are out there.
>> Any body who is very paranoid could opt out.
> 
> Julian
> 
> If you chose to go down that route please be open and public about it
> and ensure every downloader is fully aware that MailScanner will send
> back info about usage to you.
> 
> You will recall that Antony Howe of SnertSoft recently received some
> (mainly unfair) criticism for doing this in the many useful Sendmail
> milters that he offers. There is always a danger that such criticism,
> even when not justified, may have had an adverse impact on the
> reputation of your software. 
> 
> However what SnertSoft software does is both appropriate and
> proportionate but was open to the criticism that Anthony had not made it
> as obvious to purchasers/downloaders as he could have in the licencing
> conditions. He has since remedied that.   
> 
> We use some of the SnertSoft milters here and very useful they are too!
>  
> Quentin 
That is why I put "with permission" in there.


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