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From: dglo@deimos.ADS.COM (Dave Glowacki)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: When is C News being released?
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Date: 11 May 89 19:40:18 GMT
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In article <918@twwells.uucp> bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
>I've become really disgusted with the amount of patching that goes
>into some of the posted software. I would much rather wait for a
>tested release than be the unintentional beta tester that many people
>have become.
>
>E.g., I would have brought up elm to replace mailx but there was
>patch 1, patch 2, ..., patch 7! All in the space of a few weeks. It
>might have been the case that elm would have worked fine for me but
>this was *not* encouraging!
>
>Please folks, if you have to release something that you don't *know*
>is reasonably tested, note it as a beta. And tell us what *has* been
>tested.

Yeah!  I mean, I pay good money for all this softw....

Ummm...Never mind

;-)
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Dave Glowacki          dglo@ads.com          Advanced Decision Systems