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|    Vincent Coen to Wilfred van Velzen    |
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|    01 Feb 22 13:52:03    |
      REPLY: 2:280/464 61f93655       MSGID: 2:250/1@fidonet 61f93b6e       CHRS: UTF-8 2       TZUTC: 0000       TID: MBSE-FIDO 1.0.7.24 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)       Hello Wilfred!              Tuesday February 01 2022 14:32, you wrote to me:               > Hi Vincent,               > On 2022-02-01 12:56:11, you wrote to me:               >>> You should also make sure your tests don't go out in public!               VC>> Now think about that !               VC>> If I test in another area then when complete change the posted        VC>> msg area I have to test again to confirm the change is correct.               VC>> There again I did do it for a living for large companies so I do        VC>> as I trained others :)               > Maybe things have changed in the last 30 years or so, but nowadays you        > don't develop/test in a production environment!               > You could do a final test in the production environment, but then use        > a "bogus" area name, that doesn't exist, so you don't have to annoy        > anyone...              ADo you mean that the odd 100k+ I received last year for such was in error        and       the very large businesses were wrong in their practice for developing for        their       mainframes and devolved systems ?              I think not.              Vincent              --- Mageia Linux v8 X64/Mbse v1.0.7.24/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707        * Origin: The Elist Maintainer (2:250/1)       SEEN-BY: 1/120 123 15/0 18/0 200 25/0 21 90/1 105/81 106/201 116/116       SEEN-BY: 120/340 123/0 25 115 131 180 190 200 755 129/305 330 331       SEEN-BY: 134/101 135/300 138/146 153/757 7715 222/2 226/30 227/114       SEEN-BY: 229/110 206 317 400 424 426 664 700 240/1120 5832 250/0 1       SEEN-BY: 250/3 4 5 6 7 8 10 21 261/1466 263/0 266/512 275/100 1000       SEEN-BY: 282/1038 292/854 299/6 300/4 301/1 317/3 320/219 322/757       SEEN-BY: 342/11 200 396/45 460/58 633/280 640/1321 712/848 3634/0       SEEN-BY: 3634/12 15 24 27 50 119 5020/1042       PATH: 250/1 3634/12 153/7715 229/426           |
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