Xref: utzoo news.groups:32238 comp.sys.handhelds:7974 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!ksmith From: ksmith@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Karl J. Smith) Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: RFD comp.sys.handelds split Summary: Create a 48 sources group and a 48 group and be done with it. Keywords: comp.sys.calculators comp.sys.palmtops Message-ID: <12166@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Date: 21 May 91 15:15:17 GMT References: <7567@rex.cs.tulane.edu> <6831@husc6.harvard.edu> Followup-To: news.groups Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711 Lines: 34 The original problem was that posts about the 48 were drowning out everything else - so give the 48 its own newsgroup. A sources group is a good idea, too (and nobody seems to be against it.) Matt seems to have expressed this best, so once again: In article matt@physics.berkeley.ed writes: ... >First of all, I think it is obvious that the hp48 deserves its own newsgroup. ... >I think, further, that the newsgroup name should have hp48 in it. ... >I don't think that we should be worried about any master reorganization plans >of comp.sys.handhelds, or about subdivisions of the hp48 newsgroup. Let's take >it one step at a time, and see what things are like after the hp48 newsgroup >is created---I suspect that that will solve most of our problems. ... >I'm not terribly dogmatic about names. ... We already had a vote about this, and it passed. The reason we're doing a rehash is because of the confusion about running two votes in parallel (permitted) versus running a single vote to create two groups (not permitted). Can we please just get on with another vote (in parallel) for the two groups? Jeff Mandel, could you please repost the summary that you posted after talking to Gene Spafford? He made two good suggestions for group names that fit into the namespace and were what most of us have already voted for (a moderated 48 sources group and a 48 group). -Karl Smith ksmith@jarthur.claremont.edu