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From: rsholmes@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Rich Holmes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds,news.groups
Subject: Re: RFD: Comp.sys.handhelds split reworking
Message-ID: <1991May19.175904.5123@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 19 May 91 17:59:04 GMT
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In article <7530@rex.cs.tulane.edu> mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu writes:
>comp.sys.handhelds.programmers (for programming any machine)
>comp.sys.handhelds.organizers  (for using any machine to keep notes, phone #s)
>
>It is possible that an additional group would be useful:
>
>comp.sys.handhelds.connectivity (for connecting any machine to another device)

WHAT?????  

Are you seriously suggesting that issues relating to HP48 programming,
HP48 alarms, and HP48-to-computer connections should be put (1) in separate
groups and (2) respectively in the same groups with postings about all other
calculator/palmtop programming, all other personal organizers, and all other
handheld-to-computer connectivity?

I'm appalled.  You've gone from one newgroup in which (some) people
are unhappy about too many HP48 posts, to three in which those same people
will be unhappy, and probably all three will be of interest to most of us.

>So, if you like this proposal, let me know. If there is a firestorm against it,
>I see little reason to abandon .HP48.

In other words, this is a straw man?  "Either support this ludicrous idea, or
support my original proposal"?

Perhaps you should reread the discussion.  What I see a
lot of support for is NOT a split along usage lines for all handhelds, but
a split between different kinds of handhelds -- one that recognizes that,
with the probable exception of the HP95, the HP handhelds belong together.

Please do go to the Net-Gods, but with a proposal like:

  c.s.calculators.hp
  c.s.calculators.misc
  c.s.palmtops

... or something along those lines.

(As always, I really see no need for a split, but I'll reluctantly support
a split along lines that make some kind of sense).
-- 
 - Rich Holmes                  rich@suhep.bitnet or rich@suhep.phy.syr.edu
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