Thee Chicago Wolf wrote:
>>>Not very responsible for me to post the MSFT url, or MSFT for posting
>>>the download to the general public in the first place?
>>
>>Note that newsgroups are not PC magazines, interested in headlines only.
>>Posting such links w/o making clear that a "Release Candidate" is still
>>*unfinished* software is grossly careless.
>
>
> The average person or even casual Internet user does not frequent
> Usenet. For you or anyone else to generalize the user demographic
> viewing the postings in this group to be the equivalent of dumb
> computer users who don't know any better, can't read, or grandma
> taking her broke computer to Geek Squad because she inadvertently
> downloaded and installed RC1 from Microsoft and installed it is beyond
> disingenuous.This is a public group and the freedom to post public
> information regarding Windows XP, even if the whole of computerland
> doesn't yet know about it as soon as the tech folks who follow the
> story do, is neither careless nor unimportant. Believe it or not,
> people smart enough to seek it out are smart enough to know what
> they're getting into. Joe and Jane User will continue to NOT seek it
> out, know about it, or get their systems into a bind.
>
Unfortunately the "newbies" CAN arrive here through the web access by
clicking help, THEN they discover the the link to really get them into
trouble!