RE: Surreptitious reporting...

["Ed" <hamonwry12 -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Simple solution: don't use it!
 
Please stop chastising someone who is not even a full-time employee and is
clearly not the official voice of MadCap.
-=Ed.

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> Of Robert Lauriston
> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 4:45 PM
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> Subject: Re: Surreptitious reporting...
> 
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Sharon Burton <sharon -at- anthrobytes -dot- com>
> wrote:
> > Yes, I would be upset if Feedback phoned home to MadCap, too. That would
be
> > bad. That's why it doesn't do that. ...  There is no phone home feature
...
> 
> Wrong:
> 
> Q: If a user installs a feedback-enabled help system, I believe that
> the system will push to the feedback server, information about which
> search terms that user has searched for. Is there a way for a user to
> choose to opt out of this? ...
> 
> A: Its not possible to disable the feedback from the user end, the
> only way would be to disable a connection to the internet.
> 
> Comment: We've had the same concerns, as we have some very high
> security end-users with very strict policies. The workaround solution
> we found was just to instruct users who do not want to submit feedback
> to block our secure URL. ...
> 
> http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=7564
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