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Subject: Re: Fair conditions?!

Author: Mike S.

Date: 05:09:57 11/01/03

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On November 01, 2003 at 06:56:23, Harald Faber wrote:

>>>>(...)

>>Some years ago there was a similar situation, and it was
>>just courtesy of the SSDF not to test some important programs because the
>>publisher said he didn't want it, but the users certainly didn't appreciate the
>>decision.
>
>This is not correct. Ed has permitted, but said that there are problems with
>auto232 so he adviced to test manually. Otherwise the rating would not be
>accurate.

I didn't mean Rebel only, but also Millennium programs where that was the case
AFAIK, for a period of time. I don't know details about it anymore, i.e. if
Auto232 related or not, but earlier Shredder versions were missing for that
reason IIRC. (I write this only from memory and didn't crosscheck it now.)

mfg.
Michael Scheidl



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