> >>Or it might be that this site isn't where the knowledgeable people that use the 50g hang out at. . .<<There was a missing *most* in that sentence that I must have skipped. It was completely unintentional I assure you. It should have read "Or it might be that this site isn't where *most* the knowledgeable people that use the 50g hang out at. . ."
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> That's dirty pool..
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> I
> resent having my knowledge of something impugned.
I think you will agree that the single missing word changes the tone of the sentence completely (and is what was originally meant). Again, I apologize for my poor wording.
The discussion of that thread why there was not very much activity on this yahoo group, and if it meant that the 50g was dead or something.
Please note I did not "leave to go set up something else without telling anyone". Both of the things to which I linked have been around long before this group was organized.
It is very relevant to know that comp.sys.hp48, a usenet group, has been around since the late 80s and is where most of the discussion of the 48/49/50g happens. Almost all of the "old hands" read there, but nowhere else. The link I posted simply is the google interface to the usenet group. You can search for info that goes back over 2 decades.
HP's discussion group is at least 8 years old and has much more visibility (in both HP manuals since I started putting it there and from the main HP calculator page since I convinced marketing to include it) and active users than this yahoo group.
In fact, you can search back in comp.sys.hp48 and see discussion about someone wanting to open *this* group and the associated discussion. If I recall correctly, the general comments were along the line of "why open another group when this usenet has more users?" and "well I won't be visiting it".
My opinion was that the more locations people can get help the better. That is why I offered to take over "moderation" here when he left rather then just closing it as he intended. Moderation consists of approving requests to join (it is quite simple to filer spam bot registrations vs real users) and to clean out the occasional spam post.
If anyone would prefer to do this task, feel free to email and I will happily hand over the keys.
Also, I never received the message you send to me earlier. It must have ended up in the yahoo spam filter or something. . . :-(
Feel free to message me at timwessman at hp.com if you'd like.
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Although I work for the HP calculator group designing and building new calculators, the views and comments expressed here are my own.