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From: rsholmes@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Rich Holmes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: RFD: Alternate proposal
Summary: comp.sys.handhelds.hp,comp.sys.handhelds.misc
Message-ID: <1991May13.160635.5534@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 13 May 91 16:06:35 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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As previously stated, I feel it is both unwise and unnecessary to split this
group.  Others feel otherwise, of course, and a split may be inevitable.

If so, then I would like to urge the consideration of a second possibility.
The present proposal is too narrow (in that it splits HP48 issues from HP28
issues, when in fact these are closely related) and too limiting (in that
it fails to provide for future machines which may be successors to or other-
wise related to the HP48.  (And as someone pointed out, where do you discuss
the HP infrared printer?)

As a minimally disruptive reorganization that does not suffer from this kind
of narrowness and limitation of scope, I would like to voice qualified 
support for

     comp.sys.handhelds.hp       -- discussion of all HP handhelds
     comp.sys.handhelds.misc     -- discussion of non-HP handhelds

comp.sys.handhelds would be eliminated, to keep cross-posting in line.  In
the future, other lines of handhelds could if desired be split off.

By "qualified" support I mean I support this in preference to any H48-vs-
everything-else split, but I support not splitting over this proposal.  I
would object to having to cast one vote choosing among all 3, but would
vote for this proposal in hopes of blocking an HP48 split.



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