I'm always wondering about this - I'm digging the shoots up all the time (I'm following them with onions too!) partly because the onions couldn't cope with potato plants growing under their little bums, and partly because of blight.
But as blight blows in on the wind, and there are lots of sources of it, it hardly seems worth it sometimes. Wasn't it Robert Brenchley who said the main problem is farmers who leave reject potatoes uncovered and sprouting?