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From: alonzo@microsoft.UUCP (Alonzo GARIEPY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION ON NEW GROUP
Message-ID: <70889@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 91 07:25:35 GMT
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Reply-To: alonzo@microsoft.UUCP (Alonzo GARIEPY)
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Greetings,

I am in favour of a new group for the hp48, and I am disappointed by those
who want to ignore the needs of the eclectic minority.  Here are my points:

1.  The HP48 will soon have more users than many popular workstations and PCs
    (notably, those made by HP itself) and deserves its own usenet forum.

2.  Whatever handhelds come and go, there will be a significant volume of 
    HP48 news for several years at least.  This is sufficient reason to form
    a new group.  Let comp.sys.handhelds handle the machines that come and go.

3.  When a news group gets as big as c.s.h there are a lot of noise postings
    (such as the current thread) to which non-interested readers should not
    have to be subjected.

4.  Discussion of other handhelds (including the HP28) has been substantially 
    choked off by the ridiculous volume in c.s.h.  What would you think of a
    society that granted the right to free speech, but insisted that all groups
    must assemble in the same room at the same time.

5.  How would you feel if c.s.h postings were totally overwhelmed by a new 
    pen-based handheld with ten times the speed, ten times the memory, ten 
    times the capability, at ten times the cost, with ten times the number
    of users and ten times the usenet traffic of the HP48?  This is a good
    analogy to what has already happened to c.s.h and not that hypothetical.

6.  The issue of splitting of a new HP48 group will and should only be
    resolved by a vote.  The sooner the vote, the sooner we can stop the
    discussion.  My recommendation would be to vote on the establishment 
    of a new group called comp.sys.hp48.

I am willing to live with a lot of redundant blather and bickering in
order to read the 10% or so of the postings that I find interesting, but  
I am very sympathetic to those readers who, because they are not interested 
in the HP48, face a signal to noise ratio of less than 1%.  Please join me 
by getting out of these people's hair and reducing the blather.

Alonzo Gariepy				// The opinions expressed are mine and
alonzo@microsoft			// not those of Microsoft Corporation.