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From: Mark Verber verber@par...
Subject: No subject
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 02:41:50 -0500

>First, we'll be looking for a few people to test our installation setup on
>their PCs
>to help us ferret out obvious problems before we publish the software.
>We can't handle too many requests (we're up to our ears as it is) but if you're
>interested, send me mail and in a few days I'll send (maybe not all of) you a
>a distribution setup to try.

Love too.  We have a bunch of PCs around here that we have been been using
for portability testing.  From noname ISA bus 386/33 to PCI bus Pentium.
I would be happy to give you stuff a try on the different platforms which
we have around here.

>Second, we really don't want to be in the support business, and we're hoping
>we can use the net to help us out here.  It would be nice if there was a
>moderated
>newsgroup set up where we could get an FAQ established right from the
>beginning.
>We're looking for someone outside to volunteer to set that up and moderate it.
>Any takers?


I would think that you wouldn't need the newsgroup to be moderated at the
beginning, I expect the traffic will be managable.

--Mark Verber
  Xerox PARC