Charles2222 -> (5/6/2001 9:16:00 AM)
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Paul Vebber: quote:
We made an attempt to give the NEwsAlert folks an early shot, but if they blab around we can't stop them...I tried for a while to keep it off the message boards but it got to be a joke. Blame the loose lips...we thought folks would think about their buds and keep it to themselves, but we were wrong.
Don't be so sure about that. I wasn't part of that service and yet it appears I knew it within an hour of it's going up. Simple, I checked the download screen. Since I wasn't a member of the service I had no idea what Matrix was doing, only in my case it appeared as though someone put the downlaod up, but then didn't get around to having David or yourself announcing it. Since you have always announced it in previous times 'before' the download seemed to be working, it was natural that some of us would've tried to notify others when it was. You're probably right, there probably were one or more people trying to leak the info that were part of that group, but at least one of the informers had no idea what was going on. Perhaps next time y'all can provide a special temporary site for those with the service to download or mask the download spot in some way (For example, have a clickable secret word activate the download [could be anywhere on the page, or better yet, on a "new" secret page], while the download boxes look like the old version still).
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