mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu (Jeff E Mandel MD MS) (02/14/91)
1) While .hacks has its appeal, fundamentally, people's interest and loyalty is to the machine they have. If someone has a list of internals for the Sharp, I am interested. If someone has a tutorial on how to use the 48 for printing birthday invitations, I am not. I suppose the .HP group could even have subgroups of .general and .hacks if this serves that community. 2) The shear volume of HP material in this group is likely to keep people away. This is the second-most active group I read (the first is comp.sys.mac.programmers); yet I actually read only one to two articles a week in this group. If my news client was any slower at fetching headers, I would drop this group. I venture to guess others are in this situation as well. This group doesn't work for me. If the rearrangment means I read a smaller list that contains only a few postings a week, why should that bother anyone in the HP group? 3) If it truly bothers some people that in the division of the playground, their sport is being slighted, I suppose that the original name (comp.sys.handhelds.but.not.bloody.hp) could be used, but it seems more useful to split off subgroups by inclusion rather than exclusion. Jeff E Mandel MD MS Asst Professor of Anesthesiology Tulane University School of Medicine New Orleans, LA
rsholmes@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Rich Holmes) (02/15/91)
In article <6150@rex.cs.tulane.edu> mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu (Jeff E Mandel MD MS) writes: >1) While .hacks has its appeal, fundamentally, people's interest and loyalty is >to the machine they have... Not me. I own a 48 and am primarily interested in 48 material, but I also am interested in the handheld market in general. But I'm not interested in ALL 48 material; I can live without most of the hacking stuff. One could do both splits, of course: comp.sys.handhelds.but.not.bloody.hp versus comp.sys.handhelds.hp versus comp.sys.handhelds.hp.hacks. I think that would be too fine a division, but I for one would prefer it to hp versus non-hp. -- - Rich Holmes rich@suhep.bitnet or rich@suhep.phy.syr.edu Syracuse U. Physics Dept. or if you must: rsholmes@rodan.acs.syr.edu "I don't lie. I'm cultivating a reputation for honesty so I can blow it when something big comes along. This ain't it." -- Steven Brust, Phoenix