Xref: utzoo news.groups:32233 comp.sys.handhelds:7966 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!paperboy!hsdndev!husc6!popvax!conrad From: conrad@popvax.uucp (M20400@c.nobili) Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: RFD comp.sys.handelds split Summary: comp.sys.calculators and comp.sys.palmtops ... Keywords: comp.sys.calculators comp.sys.palmtops Message-ID: <6833@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 21 May 91 01:57:28 GMT References: <7567@rex.cs.tulane.edu> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Organization: Harvard University, Office for Information Technology Lines: 55 matt@physics.berkeley.edu : ><7567@rex.cs.tulane.edu> mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu (Jeff E Mandel MD MS) : > >> 3) There are several individuals (and I'm sure you know who you are) >> whose opinions are well known. I would appreciate it if some other >> people would make their opinions known. Not that I don't love hearing >> from all of you... Yes, definitely. Let's hear from everybody! I am almost as sick of posting things as you all probably are of reading what I post (those of you who haven't figured out kill files, that is... ;-) ). I am being vocal because I think there are lots of shy people out there with the same ideas. I am willing to bet that there are lots of people who are too confused by this whole process to know how to participate. As you can see, however, it is not as good to read this stuff and to think to yourself "yeah, that's right, I like that" or "God, what a dumb idea" as it is actually to post those thoughts. The network wants to see a popular consensus, not a volume of stuff from a few cranks like me! >I think, further, that the newsgroup name should have hp48 in it. >Remember, after all, what the purpose of newsgroup names is: it is to >tell people who are unfamiliar with a group what the group is about. >"comp.sys.handhelds" fails miserably on this count, and I hope we can >choose a name that does better. >I'm not terribly dogmatic about names. I'd be happy with >comp.sys.handhelds.hp48, or comp.sys.hp48, or comp.sys.hp.hp48. I >just want the name to make it clear that this is an hp48 newsgroup. I agree that unenlightening names do everyone a disservice. But who would not expect to find HP48 stuff in a group called comp.sys.calculators?! Or that such a group would be about calculators?! Or that such a group might _not_ be about "palmtops" or "organizers"?! >-- >Matthew Austern Just keep yelling until you attract a >(415) 644-2618 crowd, then a constituency, a movement, a >austern@lbl.bitnet faction, an army! If you don't have any >matt@physics.berkeley.edu solutions, become a part of the problem! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I guess that is what I am trying to do! P.S. You will probably all be immensely pleased that I am going on vacation for several days and likely won't be able to read (and post) news! So others must take up the keyboard and fight for what they want! I have probably outlived my believability anyway.... +---- C o n r a d C . N o b i l i ----+ | | | Harvard University | Internet: conrad@harvarda.harvard.edu | | Office for Info. Tech. | conrad@popvax.harvard.edu | | Information Services | BITNET: CONRAD AT HARVARDA | | Technical & User Services | CONRAD AT HARVSPHB | | 1730 Cambridge Street | voice: (617) 495-8554 | +---- Cambridge, MA 02138 | fax: (617) 495-0715 ----+