In message <19990503002814.A24162@marvin.ece.utexas.edu>,
"Brian C. Grayson" writes:

>  What if we turn the problem around -- instead of finding out
>who has problems, what if we found out who _didn't_ have
>problems, or at least who has such hardware?  For example,
>volunteers could set up their /etc/rc.local to E-mail their
>dmesg or some such to a site.  

You should have heard the shrieks of outrage about a `netbsd
counter' project.  (basically, adding an option to the isntall
to send an email saying NetBD had been isntalled on another machine).

Do you think this'd be seen any differently?