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From: zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: ONE WEEK TO CALL FOR VOTE
Message-ID: <1762@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 91 00:47:09 GMT
References: <4068@ryn.mro4.dec.com> <1991Mar5.030117.17209@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <4078@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
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We seem to have two different meanings for the word "handhelds":
 
In Article <4078@ryn.mro4.dec.com>, taber@ultnix.enet.dec.com
(Patrick St. Joseph Teahan Taber) writes:
 
>There are only a
>handful of serious handheld makers.  HP, Sharp, Casio and TI are the
>only ones that spring to mind.
 
   Poquet/Portfolio/Psion don't count? Well, maybe they do and
maybe they don't. It might help if we formally decided that
"handhelds" refers to calculators only, and that
Wizard/Poquet/Jaguar/etc discussion should be directed to
comp.sys.laptops (some will argue that this has always been the
case, but it has never been clearly stated). Someone should also
tell spaf to include a note to that effect in his "list of active
newsgroups".
 
>comp.sys.handhelds          ;general discussion, new products, algorithms
>comp.sys.handhelds.hp       ;obvious
>comp.sys.handhelds.casio    ;   "
>comp.sys.handhelds.sharp    ;   "
>comp.sys.handhelds.ti       ;   "
[...]
>Only by a reorganization vote could enough votes be gotten for the
>others to have their own, private (empty?) newsgroups.  The base c.s.h
>would let the rest of use hear about it if one of the other vendors
>happens to make something that would swing the bulk of postings into
>their subgroup.
 
   You could lump all the "empty" groups into c.s.h.misc, until
there's enough traffic to form separate ones. And I don't think
you'd really need c.s.h anymore; just alias it to c.s.h.hp (or
.hp48 or whatever it turns out to be). This isn't quite what you
wanted, but it leaves the door open to go in that direction.
 
   Personally, I'd like to see a less ambiguous name than
"handhelds", but some people seem to have an emotional
attatchment to it, and it's probably not worth arguing about (as
long as you're clear about what it means). Would there be any
emotional resistance to putting Jaguar in a different hierarchy
from the HP calculators?
 
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zaphod@madnix.UUCP (Ron Bean)
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