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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
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Subject: Re: split
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Date: 10 May 91 20:05:47 GMT
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In article <1991May10.145918.4830@rodan.acs.syr.edu> rsholmes@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Rich Holmes) writes:
>One more person cries out for sanity.  

Or just cries...

>The HP48 is transient.  The reason there isn't a rec.arts.sflovers.total.recall
>is that "Total Recall" was transient.  The reason there isn't a 
>comp.sys.mac.energizer.bunny is that the Energizer Bunny was transient.
>So is the issue of a 32 bit clean ROM upgrade for the SE/30 (I hope, I hope).
>Granted, the lifespan of interest in the HP48 is longer than for any Arnie
>movie; it's still too short a time, for too small an audience, to justify
>a separate newsgroup, judged by the standards of other newsgroups.

How transient do you want to get, when there is still extensive support and
publication for one of its decade-old ancestors, the HP-41?  The
HP-48 is not going away for years, at least, given HP's standard methods of
calculator improvement.  It still has at least two more generations to
go before it is replaced by something far superior again.  Two-three years is
not transient, especially for the net, and even then the old versions don't
go just dry up and go away.  Witness the HP-28.  The too small an audience
argument falters when a comparison of the HP48 volume in the comp.sys.handhelds
group is made to most other separate newsgroups, especially the often
lethargic computer groups.

>One person complains he's tired of pushing the "n" key.  One wonders whether he
>also advocates the total revamping of the New York Times on the grounds that
>he doesn't want to read every article in the paper and is tired of flipping
>pages.  

If you could skim a newsgroup as fast as you could skim a paper, I doubt
there would be any complaining.  Unless everyone suddenly starts making much
better use of the "Subject:" fields, however, it's not going to happen.

>Me, I'm tired of these half-a**ed attempts to rearrange the heirarchy.

Then ignore it.

-- 
Standard disclaimer applies, you legalistic hacks.     |     Ron Dippold