[9fans] insularity

[rog@vitanuova.com]

> So I'm now deleting your messages on contact.

oh for f***'s sake!

ok, so david tolpin has been a bit verbose, (and we're naturally
suspicious that his deep involvement with XML implies a fundamental
lack of taste) but when it comes down to it, he's has actually dived
in there and done stuff.

most newcomers to plan 9 don't get further than booting the damn
thing.

i think people that have been involved in this stuff for a long time
forget the distance between plan 9 and other systems.  yes, most stuff
is documented (often by implication), but having someone to talk to
that knows about the system makes all the difference.  i think all
david's questions have been perfectly acceptable, and i wouldn't have
thought twice about answering them had they been asked by someone
across the room.

this system *needs* people with some energy to spare, otherwise it'll
continue to decline the way it has been since the great scattering from
bell labs.  if this is the way we treat someone who appears to have
some energy and inclination, then i've no hope at all.  i'm ashamed to
be part of this group.

> If you can't get over this initial conceptual hump,
> then fuck off back to CrapOS and leave us alone.

*cringe*