David,

>Jim
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>1) There is no sinister plot afoot

I didn't think there was anything "sinister" going on. In fact the main purpose of my last sentence was to prevent such interpretations.

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>2) It really doesn't matter who reports a bug. The only potential difference in a posting by one of the MVPs is that we can report the bug with a set of steps to reproduce the bug so that MS can figure out what's wrong.

Well that's what we're all supposed to do (repro-ability case) when we post bugs.
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>3) There is no new anxiousness to report bugs, the fact that you've seen 3 of them in two days in the UT is just pure coincidence

Interesting, given that I can't remember 3 such offrs over the last 3 months. Sure looked like there was new anxiety. Oh well.

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>4) bug tracking and reporting for released MS products can indeed be improved and needs to be improved

Good! If more of the people that matter say so, maybe things will change a bit!
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>5) you are in fact pi**ing on things with another of your conspiricy posts

Well what can I say???? And "another..."?


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>>WOW, this is the third time over two days that someone (A VFP MVP) has jumped in with "I'll report it" or "I've just reported it"!
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>>That's great, really, but I am asking myself what is behind this sudden outburst of anxiety to report things on behalf of others????
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>>Methinks there's something afoot, and it would be nice to hear what it is.
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>>On the same topic, this largess of spirit goes a good distance to rectifying the problems inherent in the existing VFP Bug Reporting system. At least now people aren't (necessarily, when volunteers like yourself and the others of recent note step forward to do the reporting) doing work for absolutely no return whatsoever.
>>That still leaves, though, the issues of:
>>1) knowing that the bug report has been ACCEPTED AS A TRUE BUG by MS;
>>2) getting it into some publicly available list so that others have the benefit of learning of its existence so that they can save frustration and hair.
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>>And of course it adds a burden to our esteemed MVPs who are essentially making up for poor customer relations by MS.
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>>Believe me when I say all this volunteerism is a good thing and I sure don't want to appear to be pi**ing on it.