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From: king@akov11.dec.com (Extremists should be shot!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Bugs in new BETA ROMS?
Message-ID: <8809070611.AA01159@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 7 Sep 88 06:11:05 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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>I'm afraid that the only offense that I'm guilty of is telling the truth
>in a public forum.  For that, I plead guilty.
> 
>						Myron Drapal
>						AT&T Denver
>						att!druhi!med

I find this hard to believe for one simple reason, and it can be summed up in
the following question: Are YOU an OFFICIAL beta tester of the new ROMS?

You have admitted yourself that you are not.  Therefor you have illegally gained
access to said ROMS, and then begin publicly shouting about things you found
wrong with ROMS you were not supposed to be using/looking at.
Atari's main purpose has not been to just hush you up, it has in fact been to 
say you should not be reporting bugs 1) over comp.sys.atari.st and 2) at all 
as you should not have the ROMS.  Atari has never said that they were unaware 
of the bugs you have mentioned, the Beta-testers may have already recieved 
notice of the bug once it was reported THROUGH PROPER CHANNELS.

Why didn't you just mail the report to Atari? Why did you have to post it here?
Did you have any other reason than some subtle Atari Bashing?  If so, I would
love to know why.  I would assume (oh oh ass/u/me) that the person that actually
has the Beta-test ROMS has already reported what you have found thru the SPR
system included with the Beta-test kit, so why did you have to post it here as
well? Or do you in fact own a pirated copy of the ROMS?

I for one would like to thank Allan & Co. for the new era of support we have
begun to see from Atari, and the flow of information we have been seeing lately.
To me it seems to be an indication of good things to come.

Bob King
king@akov11.dec.com

Hey, I certainly don't dictate policy for DEC, so these opinions are mine alone.
Flame away, I expect no better.