[rms at ai.mit.edu: Please don't spread pre-test releases]

[Leonard H. Tower Jr.]

   From: rms at ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman)
   Date: Thu, 22 Nov 90 14:55:06 -0500
   To: tower
   Subject: Please post a message in comp.unix.aix
   
   Please post this for me in comp.unix.aix.

Subject: Please don't spread pre-test releases

Please disregard the suggestion recently made that people should get
the pre-test version of 18.56.  It is a pre-test because it isn't
ready for ordinary use.

Redistribution of the pre-test is permitted in a legal sense, but it
isn't a good idea.  Advising ordinary users to get the pre-test is
also not a good idea.  Pre-testers should be people who want to
investigate bugs, and are willing to throw away the pre-test as soon
as the real release comes out.  Otherwise, there is a danger that
pre-test releases will be propagated, with all their bugs.

I deleted emacs.xtar to make sure this doesn't happen now.