From: Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca>
Subject: Re: User Agent string: making it more specific?
Date: 03 Jan 2000 04:12:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877lhry0vy.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Eric Marsden's message of "03 Jan 2000 10:02:00 +0100"
Eric Marsden <emarsden@mail.dotcom.fr> writes:
> per> I'd often use that information when making technical comments
> per> to posts from Mozilla users, and have wished for similar
> per> information from posts and mail from Gnus users.
>
> IMO that information would be a breach of user privacy; I for one
> would seek to disable it.
Although I would vote against including more stuff in User-agent, I
don't understand how it would be any more breach of privacy than
including Gnus and Emacs versions. Comments?
--
Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com
"'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who
loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)
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[not found] ` <vxkg0wjjrib.fsf@beaver.jprc.com>
1999-12-31 15:45 ` Jari Aalto+mail.emacs
2000-01-02 23:46 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-01-03 8:22 ` Per Abrahamsen
2000-01-03 9:02 ` Eric Marsden
2000-01-03 9:12 ` Arcady Genkin [this message]
2000-01-03 9:39 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-03 11:58 ` William M. Perry
2000-01-03 15:40 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-01-03 19:10 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-01-04 16:52 ` Steinar Bang
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