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From: garye@microsoft.UUCP (Gary ERICSON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: sub-groups of comp.sys.handhelds
Keywords: sub-groups
Message-ID: <70608@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 91 22:37:39 GMT
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Reply-To: garye@microsoft.UUCP (Gary ERICSON)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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Not to detract from the scintillating discussion of whether the HP48 is a
techie machine or not, but I'd like to go back to the original discussion.
Well, not the *original* discussion (which was in jest (I think)), but the
serious discussion that came out of that.

I also think the HP48 is a marvelous machine, but I don't come to the
newsgroup to read about it (I don't have one).  I come here to read about
the Bosses, Wizards, Portfolios, Poqets, Jaguars (yeah!), and all the
interesting bits of news on stylus-based devices that are soon to come.
These topics comprise maybe 1-5% of the whole of this newsgroup, and I have
to wade through an enormous amount of HP28/48 stuff to get to it.

I thought of requesting a group split before, but didn't.

When the HP48 first came out, this otherwise semi-quiet group was flooded
with articles about it.  I figured it would slow down over time, but, in
tribute to the strengths of this machine, the traffic has gotten only
worse since then.

Also, up until fairly recently, there hasn't been a lot of discussion
outside of the HP28/48 articles, so the non-HP28/48 group would have been
too quiet to stand on its own.  This has changed with the popularity of the
Boss/Wizard/Portfolio/Poqet, and the promise of many new such devices
down the road.  I think discussion on these would increase if people
interested in these topics could find the articles more easily.

In the interests of all those non-28/48 users out there who don't want to
sift through 150 articles to find 5 of interest, I think it's time to start
a separate group just for the 28/48 machines and all their technical
discussions.

How about comp.sys.handhelds.hp2848?  Then leave the existing
comp.sys.handhelds for everything else?

Gary Ericson - Microsoft - Work Group Apps