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From: HCLIMER%UTCVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Harold Climer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: RE: Newsgroup created: alt.sys.hp48
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Date: 11 Jun 91 16:57:57 GMT
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In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 10 Jun 1991 19:40 CST
To: handhelds@gac.edu

On Mon, 10 Jun 1991 19:40 CST you said:
>From: bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson)
>Date: 10 Jun 91 23:05:37 GMT
>Sender: news@ai.mit.edu
>Organization: nil
>Keywords: hp48
>Summary: HP-48 product specific newsgroup
>Article-I.D.: life.16426
>
>
>   This is the announcement of a newsgroup for discussing all products
>and topics directly as well as indirectly relevant to the
>Hewlett-Packard 48 series of handhelds/calculators. The newsgroup is
>neither moderated nor archived. It may take a couple of days until it
>reaches your site.
>
>   The alt.sys.hp48 group is an off-shoot from comp.sys.handhelds,
>which has been swamped in HP-48 related postings for well over a year.
>A split has been discussed, but the obvious solution: a split over a
>specific product line, rather than someone's abstract interpretation
>of what makes the newsgroups hierarchy aesthetically pleasing, has
>lately been largely ignored. It is my conviction that this
>bureaucratic clown show isn't representative of the majority of
>comp.sys.handhelds readers, and so in desperation I offered to create
>alt.sys.hp48 if I received at least 25 positive responses. The list of
>respondents is included at the end of this message.
>
>   Hopefully, alt.sys.hp48 will be an active group, proving the value
>of an HP-48 product line specific newsgroup in the comp.* hierarchy.
>The creation of which will supersede alt.sys.hp48.
>
>   It is my hope that the discussions in this newsgroup will be
>carried out in the polite and mutually respectful tradition we have
>all learned to love in comp.sys.handhelds. Please think twice before
>posting a flame, or better still: go have lunch and consider a more
>meaningful response!
>
>---
>
>   At least 36 readers responded favorably (some responses may have
>been lost due to mail server problems, but this would make little
>difference):
>
>
>Happy hacking,
>
>						-- Jan Brittenson
>						   bson@ai.mit.edu

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           Several questions:

  1. How does one subscribe to this new newsgroup?
  2. Will all 48 specific questions go to this group only or also to Comp.Sys.
     Handhelds for people who have limited disk space for mail from the net and
     don't think they can afford to subscribe to both groups.( I use the
  IBM VM/SP  for other things than reading and storing mail)
  3. Is this group being started by you alone or is it a sub-group of the
 Comp.Sys.Handhelds at GAC.VM.EDU ?

                                   Harold Climer
                                   Physics Department
                                   U. Tennessee at Chattanooga