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O.P. RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics
Me, I'm sorry but I totally disagree. My software is not a spyware just because it sends a couple of bytes of statistical information to my server once a week. This is the kind of mixup that makes everyone thinks everything is a spyware nowadays.

Please who don't want that kind of thing will be sart enoughto opentheir prefs and uncheck the option that sits on the first page :). All the other people will just not care at all (and that's the vast majority). The only thing that could afraid an average user is a message box prompt asking to send statistics information to a server and that's why I won't do it. Ican't add it in the installer either because it would get confused with the sponsor stuff, and finally, I can't put warnings when you start Messenger because I've never wanted to prompt anything after Plus! was installed.

People who are suspicious will just monitor their internet connection and will see that the data that's being sent is no more than something like that:
stats.msgplus-update.net/msgplus-stats1.php?c=CAN&piiu=1&pciu=1&pw=1&pp=1&pqt=1&psp=1&qs=1&ufc=1&pi=1&fw=1

And to make everyone happy, here is the meaning of what's being sent... all capital letters of a word form the php parameter:
enum EStats1
{
    ES1_QuickTextUse = 0x1,
    ES1_PlusImIconUse = 0x2,
    ES1_PlusCtcIconUse = 0x4,
    ES1_PrefWindow = 0x8,
    ES1_PrefPlugins = 0x10,
    ES1_PrefQuickText = 0x20,
    ES1_PrefQuickIcons = 0x40,
    ES1_PrefStatusPreset = 0x80,
    ES1_UseEncryption = 0x100,
    ES1_QuoteSender = 0x200,
    ES1_UseQuoteSender = 0x400,
    ES1_UseFindText = 0x800,
    ES1_UseFormatCodes = 0x1000,
    ES1_TextRecall = 0x2000,
    ES1_PluginInstalled = 0x4000,
    ES1_UseScheduler = 0x8000,
    ES1_UseLockMessenger = 0x10000,
    ES1_UseBossProtect = 0x20000,
    ES1_UsePersoStatusName = 0x40000,
    ES1_UsePersoStatusMsg = 0x80000,
    ES1_UseAutoAccept = 0x100000,
    ES1_HideAdvert = 0x200000,
    ES1_WordFilters = 0x400000,
    ES1_Pop3Emails = 0x800000,
    ES1_EventLogViewer = 0x1000000,
    ES1_EventLogFile = 0x2000000,
    ES1_ChatLogFilter = 0x4000000,
    ES1_CustomNames = 0x8000000,
    ES1_UseSpecialTags = 0x10000000,
    ES1_UseOverrideTextFormat = 0x20000000,
    ES1_UseSoundCommands = 0x40000000,
    ES1_FloatWindows = 0x80000000
};

Patchou

This post was edited on 09-11-2004 at 04:34 PM by Patchou.
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Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Patchou on 09-10-2004 at 05:31 AM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Chrono on 09-10-2004 at 05:56 AM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by FadeToBlack on 09-10-2004 at 07:52 AM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by CookieRevised on 09-10-2004 at 10:36 AM
RE: RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by ZrednaZ on 09-10-2004 at 11:51 AM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by RebelSean on 09-10-2004 at 11:39 AM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by CookieRevised on 09-10-2004 at 12:03 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Millenium_edition on 09-10-2004 at 03:10 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Twan on 09-10-2004 at 03:35 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by -dt- on 09-10-2004 at 03:39 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Patchou on 09-10-2004 at 04:00 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Wabz on 09-10-2004 at 09:32 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Choli on 09-10-2004 at 10:14 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Dane on 09-10-2004 at 10:48 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Chrono on 09-11-2004 at 01:39 AM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by BEWARE^^ on 09-11-2004 at 01:44 AM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Patchou on 09-11-2004 at 04:57 AM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Scito on 09-11-2004 at 06:37 AM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by surfichris on 09-11-2004 at 08:04 AM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Millenium_edition on 09-11-2004 at 10:41 AM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Choli on 09-11-2004 at 10:59 AM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Dane on 09-11-2004 at 01:16 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Sunshine on 09-11-2004 at 01:55 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Millenium_edition on 09-11-2004 at 01:59 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Patchou on 09-11-2004 at 04:33 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Millenium_edition on 09-11-2004 at 05:19 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by BEWARE^^ on 09-11-2004 at 05:43 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Choli on 09-11-2004 at 06:21 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Millenium_edition on 09-11-2004 at 07:21 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Jeronimo on 09-11-2004 at 09:27 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Millenium_edition on 09-11-2004 at 09:32 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Jeronimo on 09-11-2004 at 09:36 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Millenium_edition on 09-11-2004 at 09:39 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by matty on 09-11-2004 at 10:10 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by KeyStorm on 09-11-2004 at 10:24 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Choli on 09-11-2004 at 10:32 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by lylesback2 on 09-12-2004 at 03:27 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by BEWARE^^ on 09-12-2004 at 03:57 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Choli on 09-12-2004 at 04:00 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by matty on 09-12-2004 at 04:08 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by BEWARE^^ on 09-12-2004 at 05:37 PM
RE: Messenger Plus! - New Usage Statistics - by Patchou on 09-12-2004 at 05:37 PM


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