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From: zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds,news.groups
Subject: Re: Splitting C.S.H (WAS: I vote against)
Summary: "tenkey" vs "qwerty"
Message-ID: <1752@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 91 14:02:12 GMT
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In Article <771ED61B40001D50@gacvx2.gac.edu>,
CW%APG.PH.UCL.AC.UK@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU writes:
 
>.................................. 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?
 
   What's completely illogical is discussing dissimilar machines
in the same newsgroup. Some "handhelds" are designed for
number-crunching, and would be difficult to use for any serious
amount of text entry. Others are the opposite. If the HP's had
qwerty keyboards and larger displays, I might also have opposed
the split.
 
And they are not being "thrown off", just given their own
newsgroup. Perhaps the split should be:
 
comp.sys.handhelds.tenkey
comp.sys.handhelds.qwerty
 
   Yes, I know the HP's have more than 10 keys, but you know what
I mean, and so would everyone else. You may have noticed that
this is the 3rd completely different solution I have proposed, in
addition to the one officially under discussion. Any of them
would have the desired result.
 
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zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean)
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