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From: wscott@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Wayne H Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Splitting the group
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.130412.7803@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 91 13:04:12 GMT
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>In <1991Mar15.190012.18656@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu> conte@crest.crhc.uiuc.edu (Tom Conte) writes:
>>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).


There will still be a unmoderated comp.sys.hp48 it will be called
comp.sys.hp48.d!  You don't need to subscribe to comp.sys.hp48 at all
and you will never know we have a moderater.

There will be no more controls of hp48.d than there are on .handhelds it
is just HP-48's only.

I really think the new newsgroups are a GOOD idea, and urge everyone to
vote YES for the split.

With the addition of the the moderated newgroup archiving will be easy and
archives of past articles as well as programs will be found on the FTP sites.
I know it will make maintaining my mail server much easier.

I just don't see how anyone loses with this plan.


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