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From: CW%APG.PH.UCL.AC.UK@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Splitting C.S.H (I vote against)
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Date: 28 Feb 91 17:56:50 GMT
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       Howdy,

    i) Don't people realise that c.s.h. does not exist as a separate
       thing to the letters that people submit to it. IT IS THE LETTERS
       THAT PEOPLE SUBMIT TO IT. At the moment these letters are dominated
       by postings from people with HP48sx's but in the future it might not
       be. The people that originally wanted the group to split are those
       people that hardly ever submit anything anyway (Flame me for that one!!).
       I was really happy to see the program for the casio 602p . That was
       brilliant, and the guy who wrote something about the agenda who started
       with 'lets start a discussion'. FANTASTIC. That is what its all about
       ---- A TWO WAY DISCUSSION ---- about yours and other peoples
       handheld machines ( is the HP48sx not considered a handheld ?). The
       only way to get some traffic is to submit articles, no matter how
       trivial, about whatever area of your handheld you want. DON'T BE SHY.
       Then you'll get more people responding, and wallop you have a discussion!
       Don't penalize the 48sx owners because they happen to have a lot to say
       about their particular machine and don't sit at home expecting people
       to write wonderful programs for your machine and submit them to the
       group, they won't if you won't!!!! I think it would be very bad to
       split the group. It is a group for handheld owners and the 48sx is a
       handheld. In the future other machines will come along and people
       will rave about them -- will they be thrown off ? -- Thrown off
       of c.s.h. for discussing handhelds??? Isn't that completely illogical?

       All I can say is --- Follow the example of the casio 602p owner and the
       agenda discussers DO SOMETHING don't sit there and complain about
       other people having a discussion. It would be a terrible shame if
       a new group was created simply because of an enthusiatic response
       to a particular machine. In reply to the guy who said something
       like -

          "How would you feel if a super new mega machine took up all
       the bandwidth"

       I wouldn't mind in the slightest, infact I would consider it a
       very healthy thing, not something to be removed, and exactly what
       the group is about, and it certainly wouldn't stop me submitting
       stuff about the HP48sx.

       To the owners of other machines --- Get writing.

              Just my 2p  (English money)

      ii) Sorry to mention that profane calculator, but....


          GATEWAY 48 works fine on my machine (version D + 32K ram), apart
          from locking up on alarms, which I don't use anyway. It has never
          caused a memory lost.

               Conrad