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.
next prev parent 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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