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- From: erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,alt.config
- Subject: Re: RFD: alt.apple.newton
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.164511.1@tesla.njit.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 21:45:11 GMT
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- In article <cline.711794712@ebony.cs.scarolina.edu>, cline@cs.scarolina.edu (Ernest Cline) writes:
- > There has been a lot of discussion of late about Newton the pen based PDA
- > that Apple will be introducing soon. Yet since this is not a Macintosh, and
- > will not be using the MacOS it really doesn't seem to belong in
- > comp.sys.mac.misc. Therefore, I propose the group alt.apple.newton an
- > unmoderated group for the discussion of this device. Comments will be
- > appreciated. If the consensus of opinion that I see is that such a group
- > would be useful, then I'll get to learn about how to create a newgroup. If
- > not, oh well.
-
- A group sounds like a good idea, but why in the alt. hierarchy?
- Why not comp.sys.newton? If there isn't enough interest yet to pass
- a vote in the comp groups, then the time probably isn't right for this yet.
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- Elliotte Rusty Harold Department of Applied Mathematics
- elharo@m.njit.edu New Jersey Institute of Technology
- erh0362@tesla.njit.edu Newark, NJ 07103
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