With development of the software new versions are released every time development has reached a certain point.

It can be annoying to be informed very often about new releases from software, since this takes time and processor and sometimes also for users costly Internet connections.

On the other hand we know that some users run into problems due to NOT having updated to a newer version in which a given problem was solved.

We could therefore consider to have the end user decide an option saying "check for new version every x days" (e.g. x could be 7). Please give viewpoints and considerations on this.

Also I noted today that some "semi-comercial" sites most likely running from the advertisements on that site offer download of the software . The webplace in question have been contacted by me. If we have automatic checking with reference to the true EpiData website, that problem would be minimized .

Is this a desired option or does it work fine with the users getting information from this list in general ? . We know the list have about 700 persons "listening", but the number of actual users is very much larger and these other users do not easily know that there is a new version around.

regards

Jens Lauritsen EpiData Association