in reply to Padre and usage statistics
As a module author, I have often wanted to know if anyone is using what I put on CPAN. CPAN download statistics would be nice, but there are too many excuses (we're volunteers, it's mirrored, blah blah blah, etc.), so Debian's popcon is a decent substitute if you can get your modules turned into Debian packages.
Finally, I agree with others here that software that phones home is spyware, period. Please don't do that.
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