From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 09:33:59 +1000 From: Chris Collins To: Russ Cox , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] the futility of #plan9 on irc Message-ID: <20050523233359.GD14127@xware.cx> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 50fd3288-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Russ Cox was once rumoured to have said: > it's like arguing with toothpaste. Sure, you might not like the IRC crowd, but posting this to 9fans in anger over a few members of #plan9 is about as mature as the US walking into the Gulf because "members of al Qaida, an organization bearing responsiblity for attacks on the United States, its citizens, and interests, including the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, are known to be in Iraq"[1]. #plan9 provides a multilingual, almost 24 hour/day, support service for free due to the efforts of its members. It also serves a general port of call for those of us actively developing or porting to bounce ideas off of people in real-time - something that can't easily be done on (and isn't really suited for[2]) a public mailing list. Of course, one has to take things said on #plan9 with a pinch of salt, but that is the nature of IRC and applies equally to any channel. C. [1] HJ 114 IH - "Authorisation for use of military force against Iraq" [2] Media Richness Theory / Media Synchronicity Theory - early phases of collaborative or planning work tends to start in a "conveyance" phase which demands more interactive forms of communication.