The paranoid user from Gareth Rees on 2009-09-03 (public-html-comments@w3.org from September 2009)

From: Gareth Rees <Gareth.rees@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 11:53:02 +0100
To: public-html-comments@w3.org
Message-Id: <5E6272D7-1029-4144-A17C-5A6D89452B02@pobox.com>

Section 6.12.2.1 "Hyperlink auditing" says:
> However, the ping attribute ... allows the paranoid user to disable  
> the notifications without losing the underlying link functionality.
>


The use of the word "paranoid" suggests that such a user's concerns  
about sending ping notifications are delusional: that is, in practice  
there is no gain in privacy from disabling the notifications. Is this  
what you mean to imply? If it is, I think it would be better if the  
text were more explicit.


-- 
Gareth Rees

Received on Friday, 4 September 2009 06:24:07 UTC