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From: rick@pavlov.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Richard H. Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Splitting the group
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Date: 20 Mar 91 22:30:47 GMT
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In article <719@thebeach.UUCP> spell@thebeach.UUCP (Chris Spell) writes:
>
>	The purpose of the moderated newsgroup comp.sys.hp48 is not to
>	control flame wars.  My vision of that group is that it would carry
>	all sources in a uniform form which will download to the calculator
>	without any problems.  All the articles would be suitable for
>	archiving with a standard rkive(1) header so that people doing
>	archiving will have less work to do.  Also, it would be nice to send
>	the technical documents like the processor notes and such to the
>	moderated newsgroup. 


And this is why the call for vote is premature and the discussion should
have been brought into the net before calling for vote. The moderated 
group will include source. The is another group call comp.sources.* which
is designed specifically for source listings. This is to allow sites to 
not include source postings for whatever reasons that site might have. Thus
comp.sys.hp48 is misnamed and should be comp.sources.hp48. [IMHO]. 

The bottom line is that there are certain characteristics of news group
proposals which do have an impact beyond what a proponent might believe. It
should be discussed by the net at large.
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