Xref: utzoo news.groups:32252 comp.sys.handhelds:7980 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!agate.berkeley.edu!matt From: matt@physics16.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern) Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: RFD comp.sys.handelds split Message-ID: Date: 21 May 91 20:57:10 GMT References: <7567@rex.cs.tulane.edu> <6831@husc6.harvard.edu> Sender: root@agate.berkeley.edu (Charlie Root) Reply-To: matt@physics.berkeley.edu Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Theoretical Physics Group) Lines: 27 In-Reply-To: conrad@popvax.uucp's message of 21 May 91 00: 21:43 GMT In article <6831@husc6.harvard.edu> conrad@popvax.uucp (M20400@c.nobili) writes: > So, I see a consensus forming for the ideal: > comp.sys.calculators > comp.sys.palmtops or comp.sys.organizers Here is my objection to comp.sys.calculators. I see two possibilities. Possibility 1: The group will consist exclusively, or almost exclusively, of discussion about the hp48. In that case, why be coy? Why not just call it comp.sys.hp48 in the first place? Possibility 2: The group will discuss many different kinds of calculators. This, I submit, would be a Bad Thing. The hp48 doesn't have enough in common with any other calculator (except for the hp28, of course) so that they should be lumped into the same group. I, for one, have no interest in TI's or whatever. I don't think I'm alone. I believe that there is enough interest in the hp48 to sustain a newsgroup. If sufficient interest develops for other calculators/handheld computers, we can create groups for them later. -- 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!