From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) In-Reply-To: <20040726151638.GA3443@ix.netcom.com> References: <4105048E.6000500@austin.rr.com> <20040726151638.GA3443@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <8E8C11C4-DF1A-11D8-91DE-0003939D461C@earthlink.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Justin Herald Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9dev@googlegroups.com Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:43:36 -0400 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: c95118b0-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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 >