Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
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From: pete%slack.uucp@cs.utah.edu (Pete Ashdown)
Subject: Re: Renaming the newsgroup
Date: 17 Feb 90 12:26:58 MST
Message-ID: <1990Feb17.122659.27302@hellgate.utah.edu>

In article <401@clover.warwick.ac.uk> cstxqhh@cu.warwick.ac.uk (RouE) writes:
>
>	As far as I can tell, this is not a general interest group,
>	but a specialised group for owners of handheld Hewlet Packard
>	computers, so why not call it something more appropriate like
>	comp.sys.hph (hewlet packard handhelds),
>	or comp.sys.hp28 (pretty obvious).

I concur.  However, I think creation of a new newsgroup would be more
appropriate than renaming this one.  Most of the traffic through here consists
of  HP28 related messages.  However, the current life expectancy (with the
new HP around the corner) really doesn't warrant an entire newsgroup dedicated
to the 28.  I'd say that comp.sys.hph is a much better choice since most 28
owners (including myself) are interested in HP's other calculators and future
calculators as well.
  I originally found out about comp.sys.handhelds by posting in comp.sys.hp.
A comp.sys.hph would be more direct and would eliminate the non-interesting
stuff for the HP owners (Sharp, Casio :-)) as well.  However, hph is sort of
vague.  I'd say hpcalc is a better extension.