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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Allow me to introduce myself...
Keywords: Elm Coordinator
Message-ID: <2246@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 27 Jun 88 16:36:17 GMT
References: <509@altnet.ALTOS.COM>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <509@altnet.ALTOS.COM> edc@ALTOS.COM (Eric Christensen) writes:
>What does everybody think of posting the generic 2.0 gamma sources to this
>news group? (flame me, please!!!) They're certainly not clean enough to go
>to comp.sources.unix yet. Rich would laugh me off the net if I even tried, but
>that way we can at least get a psudo-official, semi-controlled version of 2.0
>out. Is this a terrible idea or does it have some merits?

Given that you've already rounded up a team of testers and fixers,
PLEASE do not post the existing code.  People will just get confused,
and maybe think the existing, buggy code is your product and attempt
to apply patches that come out later to the gamma code.

Let's wait for the real thing.
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