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From: woodhams@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Michael Woodhams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION ON NEW GROUP
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Date: 20 Feb 91 04:17:47 GMT
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A few comments on the proposed split:

A number of HP users have commented to the effect "I'm happy with a HP
dominated group, if others aren't, let THEM split off." This seems to
me to be a quite unreasonable attitude. The effort of unsubscribing to
c.s.h and subscribing to the new c.s.h.hp is way less that the effort
of sending a posting complaining about the possibility they may have
to change groups. If a split is agreed on, having the non-HP crowd
leave would lead to a ridiculous group name like c.s.h.non.hp. The
logic of the naming system dictates that the HP people split off, not
vice versa.

It seems to me that a better solution all around would be to create a
new group comp.sys.calculators. When I acquired my 48SX, and started
hunting for a newsgroup, it didn't even occur to me that c.s.h was
where I wanted to be, and I haunted comp.sys.hp for a while until I
found a posting pointing me to c.s.h. Had I seen comp.sys.calculators
in the list of news groups, I would have immediately known that this
was the right group. This also avoids the potential problems if HP
brings out a non-calculator handheld.

I do think that the non-calculator handheld people have a legitimate
complaint about hundreds of postings for the 48SX swamping the group,
especially when it is not always obvious from the heading that the
posting is about the 48 rather than the Wizard or something. I am in
favour of a split.

Michael Woodhams.