I agree with this approach. It would separate the BETA users from the
curious RELEASE users (who probably should wait for the release).
-----Original Message----- I'm all in favour of the manual being
sync'ed with the releases. That's a no-brainer. Beta support handling is a bone of
contention, and I'd rather that support maintenance of those features not
interfere with the stellar support we already get from Declude. Therefore, I suggest that: 1) Create a new mailing list for
Declude.JunkMail.Beta that those who live on the bleeding edge can join.
Cross-posting to Declude.JunkMail and Declude.Virus is discouraged.
Announcements of features would be done there. 2) As suggested already, simple
documentation of new features under testing be provided, e.g. sample usage
and obvious gotchas, rather than the support/beta list getting clogged with
people discovering a beta feature and asking how to use it. 3) Tracking what's in the Release and
what's in the Beta then makes it irrelevant what's in a given
Interim. Declude could then e-mail out a "new release
announcement" to the customer base (that'd be us). A lot of traffic
in this support list is based on administrators who are quite far behind but
are seeing "new" tests discussed and want to get up to speed. 4) Perhaps: prefix the Beta feature names
with BETA, e.g. BETAHIDETESTS, BETASPFPASS; the onus is then on we the mail
administrators to do search and replace when we implement the Release
version...? Valuable or pointless? Strict or
customer-abusive? Judging by the discussion
today, some would prefer the clarity... but then, I only deal with
one global.cfg and one $default$.junkmail so my judgement is limited. Andrew.
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Title: Message
- [Declude.JunkMail] Manual Joshua Hughes
- Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Manual R. Scott Perry
- [Declude.JunkMail] revdns Kevin Crawford
- Re: [Declude.JunkMail] revdns R. Scott Perry
- Re: [Declude.JunkMail] revdns Kevin Crawford
- Re: [Declude.JunkMail] revdns R. Scott Perry
- Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Manual nrmathew
- Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Manual Nick Hayer
- Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Manual Matt Robertson
- RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Manual Colbeck, Andrew
- Todd Holt