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>My question is "why is there a comp.sys.ti.explorer, when
>there is no comp.sys.lispm".  This group uses very little
>bandwidth, so saying that "there are so many people who
>wish to discuss Explorers" is not a valid arg.  I feel
>that if we included other lispms in this discussion, we
>might all benefit.

I tried to host a generalised-lispm mailing list once upon a time,
when there were even more vendors on the market, and the general
purpose workstations were just entering the market. The list never
expanded beyond 15 entries, and died of starvation shortly after. My
guess is that lispm users have religiously-held beliefs, and are loath
to discuss those beliefs in the presence of the infidels :-). There
are mailing lists/newsgroups for all the major vendors, and
inter-vendor discussion generally consists of messages of the sort
"I'm so glad I'm on machine xyz again, I had to suffer on machine zyx
for 6 months, and it was painful." on the
respective lists.

...arun