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From: mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Carl Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Splitting the group
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.140344.1021@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
Date: 12 Mar 91 14:03:44 GMT
References: <1991Mar11.142217.21407@schaefer.math.wisc.edu> <27dc113e:2384.1comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP>
Reply-To: mueller@schaefer.UUCP (Carl Mueller)
Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics
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In article <27dc113e:2384.1comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP> akcs.falco@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Andrey Dolgachev) writes:
>Carl Mueller says
>> 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
>
>You gotta be kiddin' me, Carl, zillion of non-HP stuff.  There's about 1
>for every 10, and that's conservative.  

I wasn't referring to the current volume of non-HP stuff.  But people who
are opposed to the split are telling the non-HP owners to just post as much
stuff as they want.  I certainly think that owners of all handhelds should
be posting stuff here.  But currently non-HP owners are intimidated by the
volume of HP-48 stuff.  If all of a sudden other owners actually started
posting a whole bunch of stuff, we (the HP-48 owners) would have to start
wading through lots and lots of non-HP stuff.  I'd rather not have that
happen.  The solution?  SPLIT THE GROUP.  It seems so obvious.  Any of us
HP-owners who want to read the other stuff still can.  Any of the non-HP
owners who want to read the HP-48 stuff still can.  But any of either
group who don't want to read the other group's messages can avoid doing so.
And, it seems clear that non-HP owners are not going to use this newsgroup
to its full potential unless we split it.

Carl Mueller (mueller@math.wisc.edu)