From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" Message-ID: <87adtvxs06.fsf@becket.becket.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <2ebc9f0bb93db277f09c485438e3dde2@plan9.bell-labs.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] List <-> News gateway? Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 10:20:24 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5803a8a6-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com (Russ Cox) writes: > This seems to come up every year or so. > I don't really understand the argument -- > since they are one and the same how can > they have very different spirits? I believe the problem is that "9fans" (according to its name) is for fans of Plan 9. Whereas comp.os.FOO is for both fans of FOO, people who are skeptical about FOO, people who want to understand both strengths *and* weaknesses of FOO, and so forth. Sometimes there are attempts to say "such and such is inappropriate on comp.os.plan9, because it is for 9fans only", or other things similar to that.