Jim,

I HAVE NEVER DISAGREED WITH THE SETUP OF A WISHLIST SECTION IN THE UT. yes that's an intended bold shout.

Since Michel has not done so yet, and you keep complaining about no action I was offering a workable alternative within the existing UT setup. People are quite capable of learning what ER means just like any other acronym used in this acronym happy profession. Randy has pretty much told you point blank that the Fox team can not take time to respond to every wishlist item. You can either accept that fact or not, it's up to you. The only other line the MVPs have into Microsoft is a newsgroup ERs in there don't carry any more weight than ERs sent to foxwish or ERs posted here.


>David,
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>"ER" would be better than nothing, that's for sure. But it does have serious shortcomings:
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>1) people have to know what it means. Not that intuitive, I say.
>2) MS would be reading it prematurely, wasting their time, because each one *could* be the "final" one which wants action.
>3) It perpetuates the MS 'policy' of saying nothing and leaving the writer to *hope* that he/she sees something within 3 releases. This is totally ineffective and not really legitimate in a business of the size and value of MS, but nonetheless 'we' accept it and so it will not change.
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>I'm willing to bet that you and other blue-labeled folk have another "line" into MS, so you all would be quite happy with the status-quo. It is for the rest of us that something is needed.
>I note yours (and JimB's and some others) disagreement with this new CATEGORY idea. As I said, your is a different situation. You've already got it good. Imust admit to considerable bewilderment at the 'disagreement' the few of you have expressed to this, since it cannot possibly harm *anything* and just might lead to making things a tad better!