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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] List <-> News gateway?
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:14:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873czmzgo8.fsf@becket.becket.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1014749934.29779.0.nnrp-13.d4f0e306@news.demon.co.uk>

Roger Peppe <rog@vitanuova.com> writes:

> i don't see how they could have different spirits when they they've
> always been (more-or-less) the same thing.

9fans is a mailing list, which culturally, gets whatever charter it
wants.  By its very title, it's a list for fans of Plan 9.

Usenet groups, such as comp.os.FOO have much broader charters.  It is
not reasonable to restrict comp.os.FOO to only fans of FOO.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-28 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-27 10:06 Roger Peppe
2002-02-28 10:14 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-27 13:41 Matt H
2002-02-27  9:13 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-02-27 13:19 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-02-27  3:04 Russ Cox
2002-02-27 10:20 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-27 10:52   ` Lucio De Re
2002-02-26 17:46 Dan Cross
2002-02-26 23:58 ` paurea
2002-02-27 10:20   ` Sam Hopkins
2002-02-27  4:41 ` Lucio De Re
2002-02-27 19:28   ` Andrew Simmons
2002-02-27 21:17     ` Dan Cross
2002-02-27 21:38       ` Andrew Simmons
2002-02-27 21:40         ` Dan Cross
2002-02-27 22:14           ` George Michaelson
2002-02-28 19:55             ` Andrew Simmons
2002-03-01 10:03               ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-03-01 16:04             ` ozan s yigit
2002-02-28  9:58         ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-02-27  7:17 ` Tomas

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