Please consider reading the entire thread. I am convinced that opt-in does not work.

Well I did but you have an opt-in system any-way "Opt-out doesn't seem to be very popular". And it does not give the user any good reason to opt-in. And it does not cater for boxes behind firewalls etc. And it breaks standard automated builds. And it raises security concerns for people.

Besides that, email is too bloated for this. I don't want someone's email address, I don't want to know which MTA they use and which SMTP routes the message followed.

Fair enough make the tell_me_you_care.sh script do an put on your website then :)

But most importantly, I don't want the user to have to do anything more than hit Enter to send me this information, because anything harder than that will result in many, many less counts.

Well I respectfully disagree, I think many people will not opt-in for the reasons I have already given. I think you need to stop thinking about what you want and think about what the user wants- yeah they can be the same thing but a random user downloading from CPAN isn't going to see that, all they are going to see is Big Brother watching.

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. -Basho

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Gathering module usage statistics by greenFox
in thread Gathering module usage statistics by Juerd

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