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From: rms@AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman)
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Subject: Please don't spread pre-test releases
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Date: 22 Nov 90 19:54:13 GMT
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Please disregard the suggestion recently made that people should get
the pre-test version of 18.56.  It is a pre-test because it isn't
ready for ordinary use.

Redistribution of the pre-test is permitted in a legal sense, but it
isn't a good idea.  Advising ordinary users to get the pre-test is
also not a good idea.  Pre-testers should be people who want to
investigate bugs, and are willing to throw away the pre-test as soon
as the real release comes out.  Otherwise, there is a danger that
pre-test releases will be propagated, with all their bugs.

I deleted emacs.xtar to make sure this doesn't happen now.