How do I get off this mailing list---and then use it for specific items? ---- Original Message ---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy New Beta Version Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 17:01:36 -0700
>Nonsense; your assumption can not be supported -- nearly 100% of the >Legacy >beta team are regular, day-to-day users of the program, some of us >back to >the earliest version. We use it in every way imaginable on a very >wide range >of computer configurations from archaic to top of the line. As a >group, we >know the program well and twist it about in ways unlikely to occur in >'real >life.' It is, however, a complex program, much richer in features >than its >supposed rivals, and we are not perfect. Bugs do go undiscovered; >enhancements don't -- for the moment -- live up to their full >potential; >improvements of personal value are set aside in favour of other >developments. These are certainly frustrations, for both users and >testers, >but such is the nature of the beast. To expect otherwise is naive. > >Wm Voss > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of >John >R. Bayle >Sent: Saturday, 30 April, 2005 16:16 >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy New Beta Version > > >Sherry replied to John: > >> Legacy v6 beta pretty much went to the beta test group the day >after v5 >was >> released <rbg> We don't have a public beta. > >OH, ok NOW I understand a lot more about why when things are >fixed or improved, frequently other things get broken. > >There is no beta testing of Legacy. > >Beta testing, done even by the folks who write FTM, involves >public exposure of the software to real world use by users, not >devlopers or even development testers. It recognizes that real >users frequently use software in ways that do not occur to the >developers of new software or even software testers. > >What Sherry has described is an internal alpha testing program, >and certainly is not like any beta testing program I've ever been >involved with. > > jr > >Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: >http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > >To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > >To unsubscribe please visit: >http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > >Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: >http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > >To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: >http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > >To unsubscribe please visit: >http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
