I expect users to read the README file and to watch on screen information. More than enough time will be given to abort the process. You are asked first, but the default will be "I agree".

Automated assumption of a "yes" isn't me agreeing.

If I hit return to start installation in CPAN and are then immediately struck dead by a heart attack your software will send the information. How did I agree to that?

To pick a (hopefully) more common scenario. I hit return, see the message and my dialup connection dies. It takes way longer than 10 seconds for me to reconnect and ssh to some of the boxes I administer.

Why is it private? ... None of these descriptions apply to the perl version and platform name.

Yes they do.

What version of Perl running on the Linux box in my office upstairs? You don't know because the information is:

Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person,         company, or interest;... personal; one's own; not public ... Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to         an individual; secret
How would me or anyone in the world knowing those things harm you?
  1. The question of harm is separate from the question of privacy. I do not want every piece of private information I possess made public just because it won't do me any harm. We're not living in the transparent society quite yet :-)
  2. As I've already pointed out there are potential scenarios where somebody knowing these things can cause me harm.

In reply to Re^3: Gathering module usage statistics by adrianh
in thread Gathering module usage statistics by Juerd

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