Bug#321056: [Popcon-developers] Bug#321056: popularity-contest: Description talks about e-mail only, while http is the default.

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Bill Allombert]
> Ah good.

Exactly.  I believe the new system should give us the best of both
transport methods. :)

> Calling http the default sure is confusing.

If you are refering to the template text, I agree that it need to be
rephrased.  But I have not been able to come up with a good
replacement text.

> Any machine that might not be connected to the net when the popcon
> cron job run. The email will be queued and sent as soon as a
> connection is established (dial-up, pppoe, dhcp, etc.).

That is only in theory.  More and more machines lack a working MTA,
and more and more machines are placed behind firewalls blocking
outgoing email, so email is not very reliably on a lot of machines any
more.