Xref: utzoo comp.sys.handhelds:8180 news.groups:32470 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!agate.berkeley.edu!matt From: matt@physics16.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds,news.groups Subject: Re: Split of comp.sys.handhelds: straw poll results Message-ID: Date: 29 May 91 19:41:24 GMT References: <5027@ryn.mro4.dec.com> Sender: root@agate.berkeley.edu (Charlie Root) Reply-To: matt@physics.berkeley.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.handhelds Distribution: comp Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Theoretical Physics Group) Lines: 46 In-Reply-To: taber@ultnix.enet.dec.com's message of 29 May 91 12: 20:08 GMT In article <5027@ryn.mro4.dec.com> taber@ultnix.enet.dec.com (Patrick St. Joseph Teahan Taber) writes, referring to the straw poll results that I posted yesterday, > > I don't see comp.sys.palmtops represented here. I know I voted in favor > of it. could you post a list of people who responded? Ah. Perhaps I should have clarified the way I reported my results. I regard comp.sys.palmtops and the calculator/hp48 issue as orthogonal. The votes will have to be independent, in any case: a single vote cannot create both comp.sys.palmtops and comp.sys.calculators. I was just trying to resolve a very narrow question: should we send out a CFV for comp.sys.calculators, or one for comp.sys.calculators.hp48 (or whatever the name would be.) Whether or not we have a palmtops group doesn't matter affect that question terribly much. [And, I might add, I think that we should send out a CFV for comp.sys.palmtops regardless of what we do about the hp48.] In any case, all of the people who wanted to create comp.sys.calculators also wanted comp.sys.palmtops. So, if you like, you can just regard that heading in my table as an abbreviation for "comp.sys.calculators and comp.sys.palmtops." As for the list of respondants. I wasn't terribly careful about keeping track of who mailed me: as I said, this was not a vote, but just an informal straw poll so that we could see if there is a consensus. If I try hard, I suppose I could come up with a list of most of the folks who mailed me. In fact, Patrick, I never did receive any mail from you. (I was a trifle surprised at that, which is why I remember.) So, if you like, you can add one more person in the "comp.sys.calculators and comp.sys.palmtops" column. Not that it matters much. As I said in my original article, it just doesn't seem to me that there is a consensus. Tweaking the numbers a little bit in one direction or another won't change that fact. -- 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!