Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!mercury.cair.du.edu!news From: bdahlen@zephyr.cair.du.edu (Robert L. Dahlen - U. of Denver USA=) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: New newsgroup? Message-ID: <1991Feb21.030904.1522@mercury.cair.du.edu> Date: 21 Feb 91 03:09:04 GMT References: <1991Feb15.161438.25961@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <10850@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Sender: news@mercury.cair.du.edu (netnews) Organization: University of Denver Lines: 28 In article <10850@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> bgribble@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Bill Gribble) writes: >In article mamos@uafhp.uark.edu (Mark _E_ Amos) writes: >> >> SOME sort of division must occur, and bickering about the best way to do it >> will get us nowhere -why don't we just separate hp stuf first and THEN worry >> about yet more subgroups. > >2.) What makes you think that, even if there is a split, it has to be the > HP people who leave? I've been reading this newsgroup for well over > a year, not nearly long enough to have been around when it formed but > long enough to see that, if the HP users didn't form the group as an > HP forum, they certainly have squatter's rights by now. As has been > said before, the non-HP volume on this group is too low to merit > its own newsgroup, but if you want it that badly form your own > newsgroup rather than kicking the HP users out. > >** Bill Gribble Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA ** >** bgribble@jarthur.claremont.edu Never heard of it? You're stupid. ** ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ nice... If it's a HP group then it should be named that. There WAS a group for Non-HP, it was called .handhelds -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert L. Dahlen - Director, Information Systems & Technology University of Denver - Denver, Colorado 80208 (303) 871-4385 INTERNET:bdahlen@du.edu BITNET:bdahlen@ducair