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From: ruhtra@turing.toronto.edu (Arthur Tateishi)
Subject: Re: RFD:  comp.sys.handhelds.hp48 and comp.sources.hp48 moderated
Message-ID: <1991May7.223538.10367@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Date: 8 May 91 02:35:38 GMT
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In article <4723@ryn.mro4.dec.com> taber@ultnix.enet.dec.com (Patrick St. Joseph Teahan Taber) writes:
>
>..., but if there's going to
>be one, how about doing it in a rational manner?  

Fine, but your suggestion has flaws.

>comp.sys.handhelds     
>comp.sys.handhelds.hp  (for *all* HP models)
>comp.sys.handhelds.casio
>comp.sys.handhelds.ti
>comp.sys.handhelds.<others to be named during discussion>

I see some immediate problems with this.
I presume comp.sys.handhelds.sharp would be among them. 
When Casio and TI enter the palmtop PC arena you are going to have 
four newsgroups with a very non-natural split in each between PC 
oriented and calculator postings. From the initial indications, 
the HP95 has the potential of matching or exceeding HP48 volume.
Therefore, you may want to make provisions for individual machines
a la c.s.h.hp.hp48 and c.s.h.hp.hp95. However, these are getting long.
This should also make things better for archive sites.

I'm not as convinced as you that devoting a newsgroup to one model
of one manufacturer is always bad. msdos groups encompass a vast
number of different models, etc but they are basically the same machine.
One person having a 486 w/ XGA and another an 8088 w/mono is about as
important as a user of a stock HP48 versus someone with EqLib + a
512K bank switched RAM card.

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Arthur Tateishi                 g9ruhtra@zero.cdf.utoronto.edu