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From: taber@ultnix.enet.dec.com (Patrick St. Joseph Teahan Taber)
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Subject: Re: RFD:  comp.sys.handhelds.hp48 and comp.sources.hp48 moderated
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Date: 8 May 91 13:02:14 GMT
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In article <15674@life.ai.mit.edu>, bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan
Brittenson) writes:
|> > From the initial indications, the HP95 has the potential of
|>matching
|> > or exceeding HP48 volume.
|>
|>   Hardly. Perhaps for a few weeks, then the discussion will likely
|>fade away. You don't buy MS-DOS machines to hack on, but to run
|>applications you buy over the counter. The discussion concerning
|>those
|>applications belongs somewhere else. I refuse to read MS-DOS garbage
|>in an HP48 group. The machine is entirely without hack value. On the
|>other hand, I may be wrong, perhaps lots lots of news readers will
|>cough up $600 for an MS-DOS computer. Unlikely, if you ask me, but
|>still possible. Let it prove itself over a period of about a year,
|>like the HP-48 has.
|>

I don't think I agree with you, but the point is moot.  The HP95 IS
posting to comp.sys.handhelds and certainly overwhelms the non-HP
traffic even if it is minor compared to the HP48 traffic.  Since the
alleged reason for splitting is to allow the non-HP readership to read
their (few) postings without having to wade through the postings of
people who USE their calculators, then the solution should address more
than just the one calculator that is most popular at this moment.

|> > 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.
|>
|>   If HP-95 users want a newsgroup, let them come up with a proposal.
[...]

The HP48 users did not come up with the proposal to be excluded from
comp.sys.handhelds -- that idea was imposed by non-HP users.  I doubt
that the HP95 users want to be banished either.  But the alternative is
constant calls for splitting.  It seems to make sense (to me) that we
should attempt a split that will forestall this crap.  I dunno.  Maybe
you enjoy it....

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                                             >>>==>PStJTT
                                     Patrick St. Joseph Teahan Taber, KC1TD

"Nerd" is so demeaning, I prefer "fashion-impared."