netguy - 9:26 pm on Aug 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

>>What a crazy thread.... Sheesh.

steveb, I'm not sure where you are coming from on this. It is a common courtesy, if nothing else, to let a person know they are slamming something new on your system.

I have different computers for different tasks. If Microsoft slammed the latest browser on me every time they had a new revision, I wouldn't have different versions to test my sites on. [What Microsoft DOES do, is give me periodic messages saying that this or that is available, and its my option to download it].

As toddski07 said, its good to wait to hear from the others to see if there are any problems or conflicts first. [My experience has been, "pioneers are the ones with the arrows in their backs," and lord knows I still have the holes to prove it].

While many users won't be concerned, the rest of us like to maintain a certain amount of control over the machines that make us our living, regardless of whether it is opt-in or not.

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