Re: [9fans] Plan 9

["Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>]

cross@math.psu.edu (Dan Cross) writes:

> Yeah, sure.  Go ask Andy Tannenbaum how you write a name server for
> Amoeba, will ya?

Amoeba is a different sort of system in a jillion ways.  But I think
that's strayed from the things I'm most interested in, so I won't
address it in principle.  But basically I was agreeing with you.

> Comp.os.plan9 is gatewayed to and from a mailing list called 9fans.
>
> Part of netiquette is recognizing such things and showing some
> sensitivity to them.  Part of netiquette is also learning to keep
> things more or less on-topic.  While some off-topicness is fine and
> even good (how can you build a community without humor, for instance,
> or germinate new ideas?) repeated off-topic posts about a particular
> subject which isn't new when people are asking you to stop is just
> rude.

The status of the license for Plan 9, and OS questions that Plan 9
people are particularly well placed to think about, are both on topic
here, for the simple reason that this is the one and only Plan 9
newsgroup.

If you want to create more topic-specific Plan 9 newsgroups, I have no
objection.

I posted exactly two posts that originated the topic of licensing; all
other posts of mine on the subject have been responses to those of
others.  If I were the only one who finds it an interesting and
relevant topic, then why are there several other people also
participating in the thread?

Perhaps the problem is that your mail/news client is unable to kill
threads that aren't interesting to you.

Thomas