Quoting mark lewis on Fri 27 Dec 2002 16:32 to Jan Vermeulen:

 ml> hahaha, yeah, i see what you are saying... however, that's almost
 ml> totally rediculous because that is exactly what userflags were
 ml> created for ;-)

    Have they? I really don't remember. I'll have to dig in a very dusty
archive to find a paper on the subject I know I should have.

 ml> i know that some software i beta test for may not want to have to go
 ml> thru some "approval methods" to be able to test a new flag proposal

    Temporary approvals have been used in Z2 to test such flags ;-)

 ml> ... especially if those "approval methods" are as
"time consuming"
 ml> as the recent P4 updates appear to be... that would kill that
 ml> software in no time flat...

    I fail to see the connection.

    -==-