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From: rjn@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Re: Is there an HP user's group?
Message-ID: <5570261@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Aug 89 20:59:57 GMT
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Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co.
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re: "Most of the hug.* traffic seems to be right here on comp.sys.hp these   
     days, so you already have access.  The hug.* stuff looks pretty dead."

hug.* exists, but is inert, for several reasons:

 1. When it was created, as I recall, comp.sys.hp did not exist.

 2. Comp.sys.hp must obey the non-commercial conventions of Usenet/Internet.
    Since hug.* would be HP-hosted, and only go to sites that explicitly
    requested it, we thought we might use it to make overtly commercial
    announcements of interest to HP customers.  We never used it for that.
    As it is, we hardly ever submit articles to comp.newprod.

 3. A hug.* connection requires a feed from an HP site (or another hug.*
    site).  There aren't a great many of these available.

 4. Virtually all traffic posted to hug.* is also cross-posted in comp.sys.hp

Use comp.sys.hp.  If the traffic ever gets so great that it overwhelms the
internet, then new subcategories, creation of alt.sys.hp or resurrection of
hug.* might be in order.

Regards,                                              Hewlett-Packard
Bob Niland                                            3404 East Harmony Road
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