bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson) (06/11/91)
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): "The Eyes of a Child" <FSSTM%ALASKA.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu> Colin Meyer <cmeyer@u.washington.edu> Fractalman <XXW8409@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> Fred Ledley <fledley@mbir.bcm.tmc.edu> HULSUND@vsfys1.fi.uib.no (John Hulsund, Fysisk Institutt, UiB) Jack Sinclair <jsinclair@rose.waterloo.edu> Klaus Kalb <kskalb@immd1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Math Society <mathsoc@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> Michael C. Grant <mcgrant@isl.stanford.edu> Michael Stribick <mikes@aragon.stgt.sub.org> Nils Audun Bj|rlo Kristensen <nilsk@ifi.uio.no> Rick.Wagoner@ebay.sun.com (Rick Wagoner) Tapani Tarvainen <tt@tarzan.jyu.fi> VODDERIE WIM <GHGALAN%BLEKUL11.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu> abaumhau%locutus@uunet.uu.net (Andy Baumhauer) berg@physik.tu-muenchen.de (Stephen R. van den Berg) crain@cps.msu.edu d89-mdl@sm.luth.se d89-mlt@sm.luth.se eagle@catt.ncsu.edu (Daniel L'Hommedieu) frechett@spot.colorado.edu (-=Runaway Daemon=-) grue@cs.uq.oz.au kevin vashi <kvashi@aunix.fullerton.edu> kjell@ygdrasil.ucsc.edu (Kjell E Post) kolstad@cae.wisc.edu ksmith@jarthur.claremont.edu matt@physics.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern) rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) rob@ireta.cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Rob Prior) rrauenza@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard J. Rauenzahn) stevev@greylady.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) streeter@im.lcs.mit.edu (Kenneth B Streeter) taff@kate.ucsc.edu (Tom Affinito) thornton@cs.sfu.ca tibbs@hplsclbt.hpl.hp.com tumavitc@frith.egr.msu.edu (Jeffrey Tumavitch) Happy hacking, -- Jan Brittenson bson@ai.mit.edu