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From: blgardne@javelin.es.com (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Premature votes
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.165328.27635@javelin.es.com>
Date: 12 Mar 91 16:53:28 GMT
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mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu (Jeff E Mandel MD MS) writes:
>Folks, we are not yet voting, so if you think that posting your vote
>accomplishes anything, you are mistaken. If you are opposed to the split, and
>want to let us know WHAT YOUR REASONS ARE, this is useful, as it is still
>possible to affect the proposal. If you just like to think that another person
>saying "no split" will disuade us from issuing the CFV, you are mistaken. It
>just consumes bandwidth that is already strained by this discussion.

So what exactly IS the current proposal under debate?  I've seen
suggestions for comp.sys.hp48goawayanddon'tbotherus (or whatever it's
called), and a couple of suggestions (including mine) for a complete
reorganization of comp.sys.handhelds into subgroups for each type of
handheld. 

I can see that there is a problem, but simply moving the HP48 off into
another group doesn't seem like a good solution to me, and I'll vote
against that type of "fix". The 48 is a handheld, so it seems to me that
it should remain under the c.s.hh umbrella. Concerns about new handhelds
appearing and obsolete handhelds vanishing are valid, and need to be
dealt with too. 
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