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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Name of this user group
Keywords: Hewlet Packard, HP28, Handheld, etc...
Message-ID: <15997@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 21 Feb 90 17:26:53 GMT
References: <5764@blake.acs.washington.edu> <5787@blake.acs.washington.edu> <401@clover.warwick.ac.uk>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
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In article <401@clover.warwick.ac.uk> cstxqhh@cu.warwick.ac.uk (RouE) writes:
>[Nothing here but hp28 discussions]

(a) There's no need for a group split; the traffic here is quite low.
(b) If there were to be a split, the logical name for a new group would be
    "comp.sys.handhelds.hp28".
(c) As others have already mentioned, the correct way to generate discussion
    about other calculators is to post something about them.  (My own interest
    is in the hp41; I posted some neat hacks several months ago.)
(d) My own gripe about this newsgroup:

I certainly have no objections to people talking about the hp28, but since
this *is* a general-purpose group for handhelds, it would be nice if the
subject line would contain the string "hp28" so that we of the minority can
filter them out quickly.  It's annoying to start reading a thread entitled
"Bessel functions" and not know the machine type until I see the "<<".

Karl Heuer   karl@haddock.ima.isc.com   rutgers!harvard!ima!hadddock!karl