Re: [9fans] plan9dev@googlegroups.com

[Justin Herald <justin.herald@earthlink.net>]

I have just started learning Plan 9 for research. I personally like the
way the lists are set up right now, but spam does seem to be a big
problem. What J. Snader proposed seems very viable.

On Jul 26, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Jon Snader wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 08:18:06AM -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote:
>> I'd really prefer it to be a development list - a place to talk about
>> what people are working on within Plan 9.  Whereas 9fans is more of a
>> user/advocacy list - where people ask questions about using existing
>> functionality, hardware support, installing a cpu server for the first
>> time, etc.
>>
>
> I'd prefer not to have this Balkanization.  I'm probably what
> you'd refer to as a non-serious user because I don't work on Plan
> 9 development, and don't use it in my day to day work.  Still,
> I'm interested in all aspects of Plan 9, and one of the things
> that I enjoy the most is the development discussions.  I could,
> of course, subscribe to the development list too, but I'm already
> subscribed to too many lists.
>
> If the problem is spam, let's fix that problem, perhaps by going
> subscriber only for posting.  Some say this puts a burden on the
> casual reader, but I never found it too much effort to subscribe
> first.  With one or two exceptions, we don't get too many flamers
> or OT posts, so I'm willing to live with that to keep from having
> to go to two places to get my Plan 9 fix.
>
> jcs
>