From: "John Beamish" 

Yes (I sent you a private reply.)

"Geo."  wrote in message news:405e006c{at}w3.nls.net...
> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
> news:405dd3f3$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> > to gold"  still has so many untested combinations that full
beta testing
> > isn't going to cover all of them.
>
> That's where public betas help.
>
> > Finally, and this is the part that I really don't like, there are whole
> sets
> > of scenarios where the code is known to be Working as Designed but not
> > Working as Intended and the software supplier doesn't publicly
acknowledge
> > these items won't be fixed.  How can one beta test software when there
are
> > conditions that the supplier has no intention of fixing when you don't
> know
> > what those conditions are.
>
> Can you give me an example?
>
> Geo.
>
>

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