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From: LEIF@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds,news.groups
Subject: Re: RFD: Comp.sys.handhelds split reworking
Message-ID: <91140.003241LEIF@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 20 May 91 08:32:41 GMT
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In article <7530@rex.cs.tulane.edu>, mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu (Jeff E Mandel
MD MS) says:
>
>1) There seems to be no one who opposes comp.sources.hp48, so I see little
>reason to modify this.

This seems to totally ignore the recent postings in support of a split:

comp.sys.handhelds (or .calculators)
comp.sys.palmtops

If you are going to give us a choice of comp.sys.hp48 or nothing, then I
for one, will be forced to vote against it, EVEN though I am TOTALLY in
support of a RATIONAL split to solve the problem PERMNANANTLY!
Why are you ignoring the support for the proposal mentioned above?
Do the participating members of the comp.sys.handhelds group have ANY
input into the final split decision other than to vote for or against
whatever kind of split you independantly decide upon???  If you are not
going to give us any better choice than comp.sys.hp48, or:

>I would suggest that the solution could be:
>comp.sys.handhelds.programmers (for programming any machine)
>comp.sys.handhelds.organizers  (for using any machine to keep notes, phone #s)

Which I find to be a pathetic attempt to muddy the water and cloud the
real issue, namely:  Do we want to separate the different kinds of machines
(ie palmtops and calculators, with option of narrowing within these two fields)
or do we want to simply get the HP48 the H*LL out of the .Handhelds group
without any consideration for what the end-users of the groups are
interested in accomplishing, in terms of a long-term, logical solution?

>I see little reason to abandon .HP48.
>
>Jeff E Mandel MD MS
>Asst. Professor of Anesthesiology
>Tulane University School of Medicine
>New Orleans, LA
>mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu

Please at least respond to this.  Acknowlege the obvious support which
has been demonstrated for a logical split along the lines of palmtops vs
calculators, PLEASE!!!  I want this group split; however, I will not be
railroaded into voting for the "lesser of two evils".  If we have no say
in what kind of split will happen (only IF it WILL happen) then please
explain WHY?????

-Leif Johnson                            leif@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu