Xref: utzoo news.groups:32287 comp.sys.handhelds:8021 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!agate.berkeley.edu!matt From: matt@physics16.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern) Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Split of comp.sys.handhelds: a straw poll Message-ID: Date: 22 May 91 19:36:39 GMT Article-I.D.: physics1.MATT.91May22113639 References: <22301@duke.cs.duke.edu> Sender: root@agate.berkeley.edu (Charlie Root) Reply-To: matt@physics.berkeley.edu Followup-To: news.groups,comp.sys.handhelds Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Theoretical Physics Group) Lines: 46 In-Reply-To: dcf@physics.phy.duke.edu's message of 22 May 91 13: 53:02 GMT In article <22301@duke.cs.duke.edu> dcf@physics.phy.duke.edu (Dan Flatin) writes: > I support the split proposal. [i.e., create comp.sys.calculators and > copy.sys.palmtops] If there appears to be a disproportionate number of > hp48 postings within the calculators group then we can work out a > sensible subdivision. But can anyone doubt that that will be the case? In the last month, I don't think I've seen any postings at all on any calculator but the hp48 and the hp28. For every posting about some other calculator, I see 100 about the 28/48. I really don't think I'm exaggerating that number. The way I look at it, a "calculators" newsgroup will be an hp48 newsgroup in everything but name---so why not make the name accurately reflect the contents? Well, I don't think any minds are likely to be changed here. My main concern is that an hp48 group get created, and I would rather have one with an imprecise name than have none at all. However, I don't think anyone really knows which proposal (comp.sys.calculators or comp.sys.hp48/comp.sys.handhelds.hp48/ comp.sys.hp.hp48) is more popular: only a handful of people have posted, whereas hundreds voted in the last vote. My proposal, then: a quick, informal straw poll. Send me a brief message telling me which proposal you like better, and I'll summarize for the net in a few days. With any luck, there will be some sign of a consensus one way or another. You don't have to bother giving your reasons for a preference (I'll probably just give numbers in my summary), but you may want to tell me whether you would be willing to vote for either proposal, or whether you think that one of the proposals is so bad that you would vote against it. -- 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!