"Johnathan David Hawke" <dropdead@spammers.get.a.life> wrote in message
newsan.2003.09.14.01.47.00.858317@spammers.get.a.life. ..
> On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 04:17:49 -0700, Tom Reynolds wrote:
> Frankly, I have allowed both third party net-sniffers and third party
> firewalls run on my WP-Pro box for some time, and have never seen a time
> in which my computer tried to connect to a computer that was owned by MS,
> This phone home theory seems to be lacking in any hard evidence. The
> multiple open netowrk ports have little to do with phone home and much to
> do with a poorly organized method of sharing network resources. I agree
> with using a third party firewall, such as Zone Alarm or Kerio Personal
> Firewall, I dont worry about MS tracking my computer use.
>

Just a curious question here: if I connect to the Windows Update site, it
will tell me there are, say, 4 downloads to be installed, 10.3 Mb, 3 mins at
your connection speed.

I haven't told the site my connection speed.......how does it know?