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From: conte@crest.crhc.uiuc.edu (Tom Conte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Splitting the group
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Date: 15 Mar 91 19:00:12 GMT
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In article <1991Mar11.142217.21407@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>, mueller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Carl Mueller) writes:
> I vote for the split....
> [lots of good reasons deleted]
> other handhelds for us to split off.  So why don't we just do it?  As for the
> name of the group ... comp.sys.hp48 ... comp.sys.handhelds.hp2848 .... whatever
> it really doesn't make any difference to me.  LET'S JUST DO IT!
> 
> Carl Mueller (mueller@math.wisc.edu)
> 
> P.S. I just got an equations card ... very nice! :-)

Carl, I agree and I'm with you 100%, but I voted NO to comp.sys.hp48[.d]

It's not the issue of the name, no, it's the issue of having a moderated
newsgroup. That makes no sense to me.  Moderation is useful to control
flame wars, and (apart from the CFV ;-) there just hasn't been that much
of that here.

I might vote YES for one group: an unmoderated comp.sys.hp48, without
the discussion group (comp.sys.hp48.d).

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