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[David D. Hagood]

(I hate not being able to reply to the messages, but either I'm having 
problems getting email from the list or my filters rae eating the 
messages. Could be worse: they could be spitting out nastygrams ;^))

Greg:
I do agree with the bit about not allowing code out of control without a 
tag. In fact, that is the rule, and my team are very good about 
following it. Unfortunately, some salespeople don't follow the rules, 
they don't answer to me, and I cannot get a hunting permit for them.

I like to have my people commit to their personal branches frequently 
for two reasons:

First, sometimes you go down a blind alley, and you need to be able to 
back up, or at least see how you got there.

Second: this allows me to have the changes on a server that gets backed 
up nightly, so if one of the developer's machines flames|gets a virus 
(gotta love NT+Outlook...)|suffers a wildcard delete, the data can be 
recovered. Backing up the developer's machines is not politically 
possible...