Re: [NTLK] NYCnug%26In-Reply-To%26In-Reply-To

From: Peter M. Fine (pmf_at_nycdaug.org)
Date: Fri Oct 11 2002 - 18:10:09 EDT


>LA GREEN said
>I may be responding to this late, but i think u are missing the point.
>there already is an interest. we want our own group.

Actually I am the one coming very late to this entire discussion so
please excuse that. I love the idea of renewed (from my standpoint)
Newton interest. I have cc'd a number of you directly since it seems
I have not mastered how to get a message to stay in the thread yet.

We can all take this off line and I am really not trying to be a pain here. :-)

First of all, you don't need to sell me on the benefits of the
Newton. I started with one and had every model as well and we had one
of the biggest Newton groups around. I even got us to meet at Apple
headquarters for years.

Eric Schneck was an active member and he should be able to tell you
of how good the group was and what I did for it so please don't
misunderstand me.

>LA GREEN said and if that is what you think serves you best I understand
> its not that we need to reinvent the wheel we are the wheel.

My reference to reinventing was in starting one more user group which
you can do of course but my suggestion was to reactivate the Newton
SIG of NYCDAUG instead of starting another group and the reason I
suggest that is that vendors respond better to less fragmented
markets and it makes YOUR needs more powerful.

You can have your own meetings at the location of choice and you can
have your own web pages. I even own the nycnug.org name if you felt
it was important to use that as well.

I am just saying this may not serve your community the best by
fragmenting and creating yet another group. I know this also because
over the last few years we incorporated a number of smaller groups
and in doing we made NYCDAUG stronger which gets members better deals
and more opportunities.

You never have to see another PDA platform nor deal with it. Of
course, you may know better but I am suggesting from someone who has
ALREADY been where you are to maybe see if I know what I am talking
about. You have never been where I am nor had my experience in this
regard. That is why I say don't be so quick and let's talk.

I had this exact same discussion with Pocket PC users. They want to
have nothing to do with Palm OS users and don't. They have separate
mailing lists, separate web pages, and separate meetings. They do
get benefits from the one larger group and they have no downsides.
They even hold additional meetings on their own as well.

You sound very sure (no offense) about this issue without really
knowing much about me nor NYCDAUG nor how it operates and that is not
beneficial to anyone.

I am only suggesting we maybe all meet to see what will serve the members best.

Then make a decision.

- Peter

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