I'm assuming you pay your testers.... why not save SB some money and give it to us to test for free.

No, the alpha testers are not paid. They are just a sub-set of the bbs people who get things that are a bit buggier than the normal beta releases.

There have been alpha releases you would *not* have wanted -- one of them actually killed all of the songs on the player. I think Tony Fabris and... who was it? N6Mod? got nailed by that one.

Not all of the bugs fixed by the alpha team are benign annoyances. There are really good reasons that the guys@empeg alpha test this stuff before releasing it to to the general population of the bbs.

tanstaafl.