Oh, he was talking about activation, yes the internet activation is nice,
the information it might send is more than worth the ease of activation over
the internet, BUT , if paranoid you can use the telephone.
I would not have anything on my machine I did not want anyone to see unless
it never touched the internet or it was encrypted with strong encryption.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Reisert AD1C [mailto:ad1c@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 12:20 PM
> To: Ron Stordahl; gbaron; W0UN--John Brosnahan; writelog@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Operating system--followup
>
>
> --- Ron Stordahl <ron.stordahl@digikey.com> wrote:
>
> > "As for phone home, you can turn that off."
> >
> > You must know something we don't?
>
> You can call Microsoft on the telephone to activate your software. If you
> don't activate it within 30 days, it will stop working.
>
> 73 - Jim AD1C
>
>
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