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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: http://bugs.kde.org/db/31/31610.html
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-08-28 19:32:26
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On Mardi 28 Août 2001 21:35, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:04:32PM +0200, David Faure wrote:
> > On Mardi 28 Ao?t 2001 16:40, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > Don't we all love internet transparency? ;(
> > > So it is possible e.g. for some companies to get informations about 
> > > "reading interrests".
> > 
> > You mean, knowing how many times a document was opened (and maybe on which hosts) ?
> > Hmm, indeed. What should we do then ? Forbid external links completely (since at
> > the moment it's not possible to create one from the GUI) ? Or maybe ask the 
> > user every time, when the link is external and not local (not file:/) ?
> > 
> 
> If url != file:// and
>   username != documentinfo.username and 
>   document.username != "root"
> then
>     ask user permission to go on internet to fetch external file.

Why those username checks ? What if I send a document to someone named
David Faure (or dfaure) ? Do you mean $USER, the documentinfo's fields
(which belong to a document, not to a host), or the global emailsettings config ?
In any case this doesn't look very reliable to me.....

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