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Nathan
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 Posted - 15 April 2002 : 17:07:00
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Reguardless of what it represents, it can be confused with Microsoft (and other corps.) versioning sceme.
not that I think it needs changed . . . cause I don't
 Nathan Bales
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Aaron S.
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Posted - 15 April 2002 : 17:09:08
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It may make sense to have 2000 in it... that is irrelevant.
What is relevant is the fact that the name sounds dated. 20th Century Fox is a movie company... NOT A PRODUCT NAME.
As Nathan said, it is pretty standard to version your product with the year (or in MS case the next year 2000 came out in 1999, etc.). Putting it as the product name and not changing it is confusing.
This is my opinion and it is not wrong. Just as you have yours and it is equally correct.
For me, it sounds dated. If I saw it on a website, I would think they are running an old version.
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Roland
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Posted - 15 April 2002 : 17:18:41
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I know what you mean and yes you do have a point. I agree that if you look at the way Microsoft names (used to name) it's software it might be confusing.
Perhaps the version number should be displayed next to, instead of being in an ALT text on, the "powered by" link/image...
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Nathan
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Posted - 15 April 2002 : 17:31:18
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People who come here who are looking for forum software to use arn't going to be familior with the snitz versioning, it might as well be an arbatrary number to them. . . . the 2000 though, thats not arbatrary.
Don't ya hate it when you have to attach a disclaimer to every message you post?
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Aaron S.
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Posted - 15 April 2002 : 17:38:22
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Your right Nathan... the version numbers should change too! 
Since it is web-based software (and ASP to boot), I think the next version should jump to 7.0 to conform with the browsers (and AOL).
I am only half joking as there are plenty of examples of software products that have done this (including Netscape who jumped from 4 to 6).
Internally version numbers are important, but externally they are pure marketing.
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Roland
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Posted - 15 April 2002 : 18:04:26
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Nathan, have you taken a look at the Snitz page at SourceForge? All those different versions on the same page, some are beta, some are stable releases, others have a higher number but "hey not a stable release" ... Talk about confusing.
This can be one of those endless discussions. All I'm going to say is that Snitz doesn't seem to want to be like the rest, so why make it act like other software and use version numbers that "fit" the browser versions?
I need more coffee...or sleep because I can't even remember what I was going to say. I'm sure I had a good statement to make, but I forgot  Oh well, maybe better too 
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Nathan
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Posted - 15 April 2002 : 22:02:10
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When did I say anything about browser version numbers.
I'm saying that when someone new comes here, "Version 3.3" means nothing, for all they know, version 3.3 could have been released back in 1996.
Snitz Forums 2000, now that means somthing, they will look at that 2000 and say, "Oh, this product is two years old"
Once again, I must reitterate the disclaimer from my posts above. . .
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