From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 19:03:07 -0500 From: Eric Van Hensbergen To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] the futility of #plan9 on irc In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050523233359.GD14127@xware.cx> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 51180194-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 5/23/05, andrey mirtchovski wrote: >=20 > #plan9 never has and never will serve as a developer channel. > signal/noise ratio is too low. any useful comments are quickly > drowned in the sea of drivel. grep the logs for expletives -- you'll > find more there than in a linux driver for sparc hardware. >=20 What's the solution then? Having a more interactive venue to coordinate development activities is a really nice thing, particularly with such a sparse group. For individuals folks have personality conflicts with, /ignore is a wonderful thing. Of course that doesn't help the newbies. -eric