On Saturday 26 July 2003 05:56 pm, Tim Peters wrote: > Noting that someone on the Tutor list running a "personal firewall" kind of > program was disturbed because it reported that 2.3c1 IDLE was trying to > access the Internet at startup. They were concerned about why IDLE would > be reporting *anything* about them to another machine. > > I confess I had the same question when I first tried the new IDLE on > Win98SE, and ZoneAlarm raised an eyebrow. Of course I looked at the source > and saw then it was only talking to localhost, but for some reason it > didn't occur to me that anyone else might wonder about this too. > > It's obvious that gazillions of Windows users will wonder about it. If > anyone has an idea about where to put a reassuring explanation that a > panicky Windows user is likely to read, don't be shy. Just brainstorming...: in the Windows installer (if a suitable place can be found); in the README most definitely (SOME users, albeit a minority, will have a look at the README -- far fewer than will think to look at the IDLE sources or be able to make sense of them); in the "what's new" doc; in the IDLE docs; ... (not intended to be mutually exclusive). More ideas, anybody? Alex
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