From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) In-Reply-To: References: <9c912d9fe7a0460562e4e374afb002f9@proxima.alt.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Pietro Gagliardi Subject: Re: [9fans] New to plan 9: what next? Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:10:06 -0500 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5c20570a-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Or perhaps someone should write a book aimed at newbies on using Plan 9 from Bell Labs. It would be called "Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs," typeset in troff, and not go into technical details. On Feb 19, 2008, at 11:56 PM, Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente wrote: > Perhaps there could be an "autoanswer" mail account... > newbie@plan9.net or something... :P > > On Feb 20, 2008 4:44 AM, wrote: >> >>> On Feb 19, 2008 9:50 PM, wrote: >>>> Maybe somebody should set up a script that looks for emails with >>>> subjects similar to "new to Plan 9", "Plan 9 newbie", etc. and >>>> sends a message with links to the wiki. >>>> I'm only half joking. >>>> >>>> John >>>> >>>> >>> >>> first that. >>> >>> iru >> >> We used to have FAQs in the good old days. The Plan 9 one has been >> deceased a while, maybe we should distil the wiki knowledge into it >> for a shorter, more static document? I'm not volunteering, but if >> others think it's worthwhile I'll certainly be willing to assist. >> >> ++L >> >>