Re: [9fans] List <-> News gateway?

[Tomas <psycho@pobox.com>]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 at 12:46pm, Dan Cross wrote:

> Here's a question; how many people read comp.os.plan9 versus
> how many people are on 9fans? The issue has been raised that
> comp.os.plan9 and 9fans have very different spirits, and
> should, perhaps, be divorced from one another. What are
> people's opinions on this?

I subscribe to both 9fans and comp.os.plan9, and have my
newsreader set up to kill any message with [9fans] in the subject
line. This leaves me with less than one message per week to read
in comp.os.plan9, and it's usually a message that I have already
read in 9fans but for some reason the mail->news gateway hasn't
added the [9fans] tag to it, or, perhaps more likely, the person
who posted it sent it to both 9fans and comp.os.plan9.

So unless my newsfeed for comp.os.plan9 is bad and I'm missing
lots of posts, I can't understand where this idea of different
spirits comes from, since as far as I can see it's virtually the
same discussions in both forums.

I say don't divorce the two.

/Tomas - now, if only I could get my mouse working in Plan9...