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From: mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu (Jeff E Mandel MD MS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: More on subgroups
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Date: 14 Feb 91 13:38:09 GMT
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1) While .hacks has its appeal, fundamentally, people's interest and loyalty is
to the machine they have. If someone has a list of internals for the Sharp, I
am interested. If someone has a tutorial on how to use the 48 for printing
birthday invitations, I am not. I suppose the .HP group could even have
subgroups of .general and .hacks if this serves that community.
2) The shear volume of HP material in this group is likely to keep people away.
This is the second-most active group I read (the first is
comp.sys.mac.programmers); yet I actually read only one to two articles a week
in this group. If my news client was any slower at fetching headers, I would
drop this group. I venture to guess others are in this situation as well. This
group doesn't work for me. If the rearrangment means I read a smaller list that
contains only a few postings a week, why should that bother anyone in the HP
group?
3) If it truly bothers some people that in the division of the playground,
their sport is being slighted, I suppose that the original name
(comp.sys.handhelds.but.not.bloody.hp) could be used, but it seems more useful
to split off subgroups by inclusion rather than exclusion.

Jeff E Mandel MD MS
Asst Professor of Anesthesiology
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, LA