John wrote: >On Tuesday 13 August 2002 02:51, Elton Woo wrote: > > >>AFAIK this "wasted >>bandwidth" >>was a REAL concern back >> >> > >Still is. Lots of people _pay_ for this junk. Even for those who don't, it >wastes time. > > > Pardon my ignorance, but WHY is discussing the possiblity of a THIRD BETA in a BETA discussion group "junk"???? I see a somewhat long thread concerning the "flower" greeter in the gdm login. Is *that* so much more important than a third beta with things such as up2date, etc fixed _before_ a final GA release? I don't see anyone getting upset or beefing about "wasted bandwith" about posts such as (to cite just *one* example) : > Bill Sheehan wrote: > >>On 12 Aug 2002, Carlos 'Fjrb' Almeida wrote: >> >> >> >>>No more penguins ! :) >>> >>>I mean you find a flower intrusive, but not a penguin ... ? He'd be >>>there, looking at you, probing your every facial move, thing a flower >>>clearly does not do. >>> >>> >>> >> >>Aren't you the guy I saw biting the heads off Keebler elf cookies and >>screaming "Stop staring at me!" ? >> >>The flower didn't survive for long on my system. I replaced it with a >>picture of a sad clown and a wide-eyed waif riding a tiger across the >>Golden Gate bridge... >> >>-- Bill >>"I don't know much about art, but I know what I like." >> - Lyndon Baines Johnson >> >> >> PLEASE, let's be sensible, and not be too busy seeing the wood for the trees that we lose the main objective ot this discussion group, which is discuss BETA software (*including* how many of 'em before final GA). cordially, Elton Woo. -- eltonwoo@videotron.ca - ICQ #149608718 - Montreal (Quebec), CANADA. "You only live once, so let's make life EASIER for each other." LINUX Registered User #193975. AMD-K7 ATHLON CPU power on board.