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Date: Tue,  8 Feb 1994 11:51:33 -0500
From: geoff@plan9.cs.su.oz.au geoff@plan9.cs.su.oz.au
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Scott Deerwester:

>I'd like to suggest that, the next time you put out an RFD,
>you proselytize a little more aggressively.  I'm *very* interested
>in comp.os.plan9, and have been quite surprised that there isn't
>one already.  I'd vote yes (early and often, being from Chicago),
>but I've never seen the RFD.  Perhaps you could put out the RFD
>to a wider audience, certainly including this mailing list, and
>maybe including comp.os.linux.misc, comp.sys.notebook, etc.
>I'd think that many of the people who are interested in Linux
>(c'mon now, running a more or less full-blown UNIX on something
>that you can carry around in your backpack is hardly completely
>devoid of interest...) would be interested in Plan 9 as well, ne?

There were over 40 newsgroups that `could have been relevant' to
a RFD for Plan 9. I'd rather not launch a huge campaign, as OS
evangelism is a fairly irritating behavior (even when you are
running the |<00L3St 0S in the whole wide world :-).

I should have sent the RFD to this list, but I was planning
to do that only if there was a reasonable support from the rest of
the net - after all, if all the support we got was from users of the
mailing list, why not just stay with the mailing list? Still as an
experiment: if you're reading this list, and you'd go to the trouble
of voting on comp.os.plan9, mail me and let me what you'd vote (and
if you'd vote `no', then what your reasons are).

Support from the people at the Labs is another issue. I would think
a newsgroup would reduce the amount of support mail to the Labs, if
there was a decent FAQ there and people could post answers about getting
Plan 9 up and running.

There's also a the fact that of traffic on this list being hardly
overwhelming (these last couple weeks are an exception).

>I've saved an 80Mb partition to load Plan 9 onto on my notebook...
>but haven't had the time to figure out what to do to get it up
>and running... 

Perhaps this should be our first FAQ? PC configuration type stuff?

(I await answers to gary's pc file server question  with interest).

Geoff.