Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!cynic!ireta!rob
From: rob@ireta.cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Rob Prior)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION ON NEW GROUP
Message-ID: <8y82X1w163w@ireta.cynic.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 28 Feb 91 03:38:42 GMT
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kaufman@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman) writes:

> >6.  The issue of splitting of a new HP48 group will and should only be
> >    resolved by a vote.  The sooner the vote, the sooner we can stop the
> >    discussion.  My recommendation would be to vote on the establishment 
> >    of a new group called comp.sys.hp48.
> I second this.  I would object to (and vote no to) a new group called 
> comp.sys.hp because it would cause a lot of non-48 people to suffer.  On the
> other hand, comp.sys.hp48 (or comp.sys.hp2848) seems to me to be a very good
> idea.  

Unfortunately, a group named comp.sys.hp48 (or .hp2848) is restrictive to
future calculator types.  A group named comp.sys.hp or comp.sys.handhelds.hp
would be much more appropriate.


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