Private or Public Beta

As always, I'm already confused just like everyone else
here. Sorry for whoever it was I stole the first sentence from.

I'm sure someone already said this, but is this a public
beta or a private beta? I'm bored to tears now without
anything to test, XP SP2 being done and such. Thanks for
your help in un-confusing me.

Rudy Bankson
578524

Rudy Bankson wrote on 03-Jan-2005 8:20 PM:
> As always, I'm already confused just like everyone else
> here. Sorry for whoever it was I stole the first sentence from.
>
> I'm sure someone already said this, but is this a public
> beta or a private beta? I'm bored to tears now without
> anything to test, XP SP2 being done and such. Thanks for
> your help in un-confusing me.
>
> Rudy Bankson
> 578524
>

It appears not only to be quite a public beta, but announcements appears
to be read-write, so the utility of these groups could quickly slide
into nothingness. I wonder if they have spam filters in place?

I bet that this endeavor is not being conducted by Microsoft Windows
beta people, but some new team that hasn't done this before. Just a
guess, but I'm not making any assumptions about what is going to happen.

--
Kent
(455568)
MVP for Windows Security

"Kent W. England" <kwe@mvps.org> wrote in message
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>
> It appears not only to be quite a public beta, but announcements appears
> to be read-write, so the utility of these groups could quickly slide into
> nothingness. I wonder if they have spam filters in place?

I've seen that one before--with an SP2 public beta--hmm--was that also
hosted on the private server? maybe so..... and it wasn't fixed. My
recollection was that Ann. was read-write to the web interface, but
read-only for NNTP. In this case it is definitely r/w for NNTP, so either
I'm remembering wrong, or this one is set up more loosely than that one was.
You had to set flags on MS addresses and watch for those to get useful
information out of announcements, in general.

They are public. I suggest not posting your BetaID's in here for security
reasons. If there is going to be a private beta also, I would like to join.

--
Thank you,
Eric Vogel
http://shelluser.mvps.org
http://msn.mvps.org
http://www.msmvps.com/shelluser
"Rudy Bankson" <rudybankson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:106201c4f214$a7e1b030$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> As always, I'm already confused just like everyone else
> here. Sorry for whoever it was I stole the first sentence from.
>
> I'm sure someone already said this, but is this a public
> beta or a private beta? I'm bored to tears now without
> anything to test, XP SP2 being done and such. Thanks for
> your help in un-confusing me.
>
> Rudy Bankson
> 578524
>

> "Eric C. Vogel" <evogel@benefitservicesgroup.com> wrote in message
> news:ungB5z$8EHA.2284@cpmsftngsa05.privatenews.microsoft.com...
>
> They are public. I suggest not posting your BetaID's in here for
> security reasons. If there is going to be a private beta also, I
> would like to join.



Eric,

Contact your lead.


--
AZC
MVP

I would love too, but I am not in the program right now. I removed the URL's
from my sig so they do not confuse people. (Note it did not have the title.)
I want to promote the sites, but I do not want to mis-lead either.

--
Thank you,
Eric Vogel
"Andrew Z Carpenter" <azc@cirencester.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:ODG%239DA9EHA.2364@CPMSFTNGSA04.privatenews.microsoft.com...
>> "Eric C. Vogel" <evogel@benefitservicesgroup.com> wrote in message
>> news:ungB5z$8EHA.2284@cpmsftngsa05.privatenews.microsoft.com...
>>
>> They are public. I suggest not posting your BetaID's in here for
>> security reasons. If there is going to be a private beta also, I
>> would like to join.
>
>
>
> Eric,
>
> Contact your lead.
>
>
> --
> AZC
> MVP
>