From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 21:45:42 -0500 From: Reality is a point of view gjohnson@season.com Subject: Disco? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3bae2976-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19960220024542.rcp5oWe7Y-1Ns3ll-jFG14CeLyRAdoNF8TgctCLKRRk@z> The tech buzz was big and from respected places. The transition from internal, to mailing list, to moderated newsgroup was impressive in its savvy. Unfortunately comp.os.plan9 is exciting as watching grass grow. Maybe strict access doesn't play well anymore. And now I see rumors that the wunderflic is on the back burner so people can blow on the kindling of Inferno. Is that where the beenies in Mr.C++.Spam's story went? Did someone turn the lab coats into disco suits? Does my writing style need a major overhaul? -- Gary Johnson "The numbers themselves may be our best tools." gjohnson@season.com Fed flip? From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 05:56:08 -0500 From: forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk Subject: Disco? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3bc3ac38-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19960220105608.r26HF4eoExz8k0FsCBebcYCpSDzS1ikBG9-6-nVyXuk@z> >>Maybe strict access doesn't play well anymore. i suspect many potential contributors are frantically busy and have only just enough time to answer the odd query (or sensible ones), at least until there's a gap between projects. on the other hand, at least the group hasn't been swamped by ``why isn't it just like the Amiga/Acorn/Apple/Microsoft/Linux+X11 operating system i'm used to'', as has happened to a few other groups i read.