From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Message-Id: <200111130210.VAA14745@augusta.math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan 9
In-Reply-To: <87k7wztt7n.fsf@becket.becket.net>
References: <87hes5vzj1.fsf@becket.becket.net> <200111091731.MAA22113@augusta.math.psu.edu>
Cc:
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 21:10:31 -0500
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In article <87k7wztt7n.fsf@becket.becket.net> you write:
>There certainly do need to be some kind of universal ID's inside the
>system.  I just suspect it's not ever necessary to export those ID's
>to the user, that's all.  Rather like how Lisp never exports actual
>machine addresses to the users of objects.

Yeah, sure.  Go ask Andy Tannenbaum how you write a name server for
Amoeba, will ya?

>> Amoeba did it; go ask Andy Tannenbaum.  Now, can we please take the
>> discussiout out of 9fans?  It's pretty clear that you're not interested
>> in much other than bitching.
>
>Well, I'm posting to comp.os.plan9, whose name indicates nothing about
>the obligation to be a fan.  Though I am a fan about lots of parts of
>Plan 9.

Comp.os.plan9 is gatewayed to and from a mailing list called 9fans.

Part of netiquette is recognizing such things and showing some
sensitivity to them.  Part of netiquette is also learning to keep
things more or less on-topic.  While some off-topicness is fine and
even good (how can you build a community without humor, for instance,
or germinate new ideas?) repeated off-topic posts about a particular
subject which isn't new when people are asking you to stop is just
rude.

Perhaps you should buzz by news.announce.newusers?

	- Dan C.