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From: spell@thebeach.UUCP (chris spell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION ON NEW GROUP
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Date: 3 Mar 91 15:38:59 GMT
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In <8y82X1w163w@ireta.cynic.wimsey.bc.ca> rob@ireta.cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Rob Prior) writes:

>kaufman@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman) writes:

>> >6.  The issue of slitting 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 second this.  I would object to (and vote no to) a new group called 
>> comp.sys.hp because it would cause a lot of non-48 people to suffer.  On the
>> other hand, comp.sys.hp48 (or comp.sys.hp2848) seems to me to be a very good
>> idea.  

>Unfortunately, a group named comp.sys.hp48 (or .hp2848) is restrictive to
>future calculator types.  A group named comp.sys.hp or comp.sys.handhelds.hp
>would be much more appropriate.

This is true, but this is not the point for having comp.sys.hp48.  The
hp48sx has enough posting to have it's *own* newsgroup by itself.  I
don't think the group needs to be called comp.sys.hp2848 because there
are not that many 28s postings lately and they can be posted to
comp.sys.hp48 and/or comp.sys.handhelds.  If some other hp calculator
comes along and invades comp.sys.handhelds then it can go through this
process and get its own newsgroup as the 48sx has.  If it is a
successor of the 48sx then the group could be renamed or a new one
created to accommodate the calculator, but no doubt it will take over
the 48sx newsgroup until that happens.  I will vote no to just about
anything other than comp.sys.hp48.

chris

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