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From: conte@crest.crhc.uiuc.edu (Tom Conte)
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Subject: Re: RFD:  comp.sys.handhelds.hp48 and comp.sources.hp48 moderated
Message-ID: <1991May9.164919.19132@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu>
Date: 9 May 91 16:49:19 GMT
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In article <15674@life.ai.mit.edu>, bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson) writes:
> In a posting of [8 May 91 02:35:38 GMT]
>    ruhtra@turing.toronto.edu (Arthur Tateishi) 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

That's impossibly naive.  Of course the HP-95LX will generate a lot of
traffic for quite a while.  There is plenty of trafic generated by non-
hacking users of computing platforms to keep many a newsgroup running.

[ Not throwing this at you directly, Arthur, but... ]

Perhaps the reason we can't agree on how to split the group is that none
of the ideas make sense!  We each are looking for different, overlapping
information in this group.  If it doesn't cleave easily....

Again, the issue is why split at all?  This newsgroup is just not that
trafficy to warrent such a split.  The danger of creating cross-posting
wars and evil self-appointed posting police are too great in my mind to
justify a split.  When the traffic in comp.sys.handhelds reaches the
hights of the famous comp.sys.amiga of five years ago, *then* lets talk
about splitting.

Learn to use the J key, read up on kill files.

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