On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:38:56 -0600, > > Would you disable it? Yes. > What if it only ran once? Yes. > What if it anonymously (not secretly) sent a hardware profile that we > could then use to better support your hardware? If it was part of a phone home system, I wouldn't. If it was a survey page that you asked me to use, I might. Basicly any opt out phone home system is going to piss me off enough to go out of my way to disable. A friendly request to help the project by transparently providing some data is going to get a better reception. However, you are probably going to lose more data by laziness in an opt out system than by pissing people off with an opt in system.
