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From: mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Carl Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Splitting the group
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.142217.21407@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 91 14:22:17 GMT
Reply-To: mueller@math.wisc.edu
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Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics
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I vote for the split.  I don't understand why people are opposed to the split.
(There was one person who expressed some concern about whether he would be
able to get access to the new newsgroup whatever it eventually gets called
and this concern seems valid, but that is the only valid concern I've seen.)

Most of the people who are against the split seem to be HP-48SX owners who
just seem to be whining about other people whining.  They say to owners of
other calculators "Just post your stuff ... this newsgroup is for ALL
handhelds."  Well, while this is true, as a HP-48SX owner myself, I'd rather
not have to wade through a zillion of non-HP postings just to find the latest
and greatest HP stuff.  It seems in our (HP-48 owners) best interest to have
our own newsgroup.  And it is clearly in the best interest of owners of
other handhelds for us to split off.  So why don't we just do it?  As for the
name of the group ... comp.sys.hp48 ... comp.sys.handhelds.hp2848 .... whatever
it really doesn't make any difference to me.  LET'S JUST DO IT!

Carl Mueller (mueller@math.wisc.edu)

P.S. I just got an equations card ... very nice! :-)