1. You don't need an NDA to do a beta, especially if you have nothing not
known by the public.
2. They have done beta updates to clients in the past and there is a beta
option in the settings of Steam.

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Arg! <[email protected]> wrote:

> since the dedicated server is free and theres no NDA or similar licensing
> arrangement, and in the case of most updates the client has to be updated
> as
> well, this would never work.
>
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:17 AM, SmOoThEm <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > That's awesome, I didn't have anything else to do today besides try to
> fix
> > mystery updates and problems being reintroduced into my servers.
> >
> > WE NEED A BETA PERIOD, MAKING PATCHES FINAL WITHOUT TESTING FORCES
> EVERYONE
> > TO SCRAMBLE TO FIND SOLUTIONS NORMALLY ENDING IN HORRIBLE OUTCOMES!
> > Im sure everyone on this list would love to have a beta testing period
> for
> > patches given we have a large community invested in the quality of our
> > servers with a minimal downtime requirement. Valve, at least give us one
> > day
> > to test and patch our server plug-in's before final release?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arg!
> > Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 3:01 PM
> > To: [email protected]; Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
> > Subject: Re: [hlds] Team Fortress 2 Update Coming
> >
> > thanks for the advance heads up, now, wheres my debugging stick.
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:55 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Fixing problems, then introducing new problems.
> > >
> > > ------Original Message------
> > > From: Saul Rennison
> > > Sender: [email protected]
> > > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
> > > ReplyTo: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
> > > Subject: Re: [hlds] Team Fortress 2 Update Coming
> > > Sent: Mar 5, 2009 5:43 PM
> > >
> > > Which will bring...?
> > >
> > > 2009/3/5 Jason Ruymen <[email protected]>
> > >
> > > > A required update for Team Fortress 2 will be released later today,
> > > > hopefully within the next hour or two.
> > > >
> > > > Jason
> > > >
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> > > - Saul.
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