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From: mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu (Jeff E Mandel MD MS)
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Subject: Re: RFD:  comp.sys.handhelds.hp48 and comp.sources.hp48 moderated
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Date: 10 May 91 12:59:15 GMT
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In article <1991May9.164919.19132@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu>, conte@crest.crhc.uiuc.edu (Tom Conte) writes:
>
>Learn to use the J key, read up on kill files.
>
You presume that all people who read this group are on Unix hosts with
unlimited disk space and direct high speed access to the InterNet. This simply
is not the case. Many readers are UUCP nodes (with 2400 baud lines), or
getwayed from BBSs, etc. To assume that the kill file solution is available to
everyone is naive. In any event, for it to work as perfectly as you wish,
everyone would have to conform to some standard for subject line, such as "HP48
Prog:", etc., and that invites your dreaded posting police as well, and does
nothing for the individual who is downloading 50 messages a day via UUCP only
to  find they are all getting killed.

The real question is, how much of the HP48 programming stuff do you really
think is interesting enough to non-HP48 users, and why would it occur to anyone
to cross-post it? I am sure that there are some issues from the HP48 community
that are of interest to the entire group, but as much of it really only makes
sense if you have the machine, and there is a large enough group of people out
there to support it, why do you see such a problem in creating an HP48-specific
group? If you want to read both groups, are concerned about cross-postings, and
are such a clever boy about kill files, write one that kills cross-postings.

Jeff E Mandel MD MS
Asst. Professor of Anesthesiology
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, LA
mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu