Xref: utzoo news.groups:29052 comp.sys.handhelds:6175 Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!mintaka!streeter From: streeter@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Kenneth B. Streeter) Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: CFV: comp.sys.hp48 moderated and comp.sys.hp48.d Message-ID: <1991Mar15.193522.21919@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 15 Mar 91 19:35:22 GMT References: <-6%=NK-@rpi.edu> <4720@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> Sender: daemon@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu (Lucifer Maleficius) Followup-To: news.groups, comp.sys.handhelds Organization: Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT Lines: 52 In article <4720@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> rick@pavlov.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Richard H. Miller) writes: >In article <-6%=NK-@rpi.edu> handhelds@vax.anes.tulane.edu writes: >>CALL FOR VOTES: >> >>comp.sys.hp48 (moderated: source, informative postings) >>comp.sys.hp48.d (unmoderated: general discussion) >I urge everyone to vote no for this proposal. >1) there has been no discussion about this proposal in news groups and I >do not remember a RFD for a moderated group in news.announce.newgroups. If >someone wants a group, follow the guidelines which include a discussion of >the name and moderation status in news groups. There was a CFD issued in news.groups (or, at least in news.announce.newgroups) in excess of two weeks ago. The original CFD was crossposted to comp.sys.handhelds. Almost all of the ensuing discussion has taken place in comp.sys.handhelds, with only a few articles being crossposted to news.groups. The discussion in comp.sys.handhelds has been extensive (and heated at times.) The "consensus" (if one can call it that) from the discussion has been to create the above two newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48, and comp.sys.hp48.d The above two groups are being being suggested as a "splitoff" of comp.sys.handhelds. The hp48 is a "handheld" programmable calculator, although it is much more powerful than what one considers a typical programmable calculator to be -- in many ways it can be considered to be a handheld computer. In any case, the hp48 has generated significant traffic in comp.sys.handhelds, drowning out nearly everything else. These two new groups are being voted on to address this issue. The structure that is being voted on has been extensively discussed in comp.sys.handhelds -- the news users that are most directly concerned with the issue. If your site hasn't yet expired the original CFDs posted to news.announce.newgroups, you will see the original CFD there. The fact that the discussion migrated to comp.sys.handhelds, and that you missed the crossposts to news.groups could be because the raging rec.music.christian discussion in news.groups drowned it out. In much the same way as the c.s.h.hp48 discussion was overwhelmed by r.m.c, hp48 discussions have drowned out other traffic in comp.sys.handhelds. To permit comp.sys.handhelds to once again become a forum for "miscellaneous" handhelds, a vote for comp.sys.hp48 is strongly encouraged. -- Kenneth B. Streeter | ARPA: streeter@im.lcs.mit.edu MIT LCS, Room NE43-350 | UUCP: ...!uunet!im.lcs.mit.edu!streeter 545 Technology Square | (617) 253-2614 (work) Cambridge, MA 02139 | (617) 225-2249 (home)