Xref: utzoo comp.sys.handhelds:8192 news.groups:32494 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!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: 30 May 91 06:49:49 GMT References: Sender: root@agate.berkeley.edu (Charlie Root) Reply-To: matt@physics.berkeley.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Theoretical Physics Group) Lines: 27 In-Reply-To: peter@taronga.hackercorp.com's message of 30 May 91 00: 36:21 GMT In article peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > matt@physics16.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern) writes: > > 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. > > Why not? You can run as many votes as you want on a single CFV. > > I posted a sample ballot a while back. Yes, and I think that something like your suggestion is probably the best way to do things. Actually, we aren't disagreeing here. I said that we needed more than one vote to create comp.sys.calculators and comp.sys.palmtops. Yes, we can do it with a single CFV, but it's still two votes. I still think that the question of whether to create comp.sys.palmtops is separate from the question of whether to create an hp48-only group, a calculator group, or both. -- 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!