Tamar,
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>You misunderstood me. If I sent an ER by email to someone I know at Microsoft, I'm most likely to get a message back asking me to put it on the public list.

My apology for the misunderstanding.
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>There is some discussion among MVP's about ER ideas, but now that I think of it, I believe that we've been told that ER's there also should go on the public list. That leaves, as the only private venue, ER's posted in a beta, and those really do need to stay private because they often relate to new features.

Well I hope we'll see such non-beta ERs here. As regards betas, I understand and never would suggest changes to that.

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>What you don't know is that, in fact, a number of MVP's have expressed dismay over the UT being the host for the wish list. Many of us don't believe that it belongs on a private, non-MSFT site for which you have to pay for full access. (I know you can get to the wish list without paying.)

NancyF recently mentioned here her problem about the setup. I would also say that this is the kind of thing that the "private channel" is applicable to, though mention here should certainly be acceptable too.

Thanks, and sorry again for the misunderstanding.


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>Tamar