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From: jrl@images1.Waterloo.NCR.COM (john Latala)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Renaming the newsgroup
Message-ID: <417@images1.Waterloo.NCR.COM>
Date: 20 Feb 90 14:52:51 GMT
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In article <1990Feb17.122659.27302@hellgate.utah.edu> pete%slack.uucp@cs.utah.edu (Pete Ashdown) writes:
>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 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.

I don't thiuk that there is anything stopping owners of other handhelds
from posting to comp.sys.handhelds, but they don't appear to be posting.

If a name change is needed then I think it should be something like:

	comp.sys.handhelds.hp

which would put it under the 'handheld' newsgroup. Or

	comp.sys.hp.handheld

which would put it under the 'hp' newsgroup. I prefer the
comp.sys.handheld.something name because that could then be extended to
other handhelds as needed.
-- 
john.Latala@Waterloo.NCR.COM