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From: bgribble@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Bill Gribble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Official call for subgroup
Message-ID: <10873@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 18 Feb 91 22:36:27 GMT
References: <6207@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <6207@rex.cs.tulane.edu> mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu writes:
>OK, folks, I have started the process of THE VOTE. The call has been posted to
>net.announce.newgroups. After studying the traffic for the last week or so, it
>seems the only workable solution is to spawn comp.sys.handhelds.hp.

<sigh>.  I think that was a mistake.  Having just sat through the successful
  reorganization of the amiga hierarchy, I think this was the wrong way
  to go about any group spawning.  

First of all, I don't think there's any general agreement on the fact that 
  a split needs to take place, and second, even if a split does need to 
  happen NOBODY is in agreement that this particular solution is tha one 
  we want to adopt.  Who are you to determine the future of this newsgroup
  without FIRST, a call for (non-official) in-group discussion of whether
  a split needs to happen; SECOND, call for in-group discussion of 
  what sort of split should take place and what the split-off newsgroups
  should be called; THIRD, a brief waiting period STILL IN THE GROUP
  for any more discussion, and finally, after everybody is pretty well
  agreed on what the new structure should be, a post to the news.*
  groups for 'official' confirmation.  You seem to have taken matters
  into your own hands with a proposal that might or might not have anybody's
  support, and will probably not pass since the rest of us weren't 
  really consulted in the matter.

In case anybody's interested, the ration of no votes to yes in my informal
  poll is about 2 to 1, though the sample size is pretty small (~10 
  votes) with some good proposals from those in favor - proposals we won't 
  get to consider now, since by the time this newgroup passes or dies 
  everybody will be so sick of the issue they won't want to vote on 
  anything else.

Sorry to rant, but this sort of irks me.

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