Re: [9fans] the futility of #plan9 on irc

[andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>]

> Sure, you might not like the IRC crowd, but posting this to 9fans in
> anger over a few members of #plan9 is about as mature

it's a good idea to forewarn other 9fans of the perils of
#plan9@freenode lest they make the mistake of joining.  of those 9fans
who have, in the past, visited the channel, 99% have left and haven't
looked back.  that's skip, geoff, charles, ron, russ, just off the top
of my head.  most of the new guys of the block have also at one time
or another quit with the promise to 'never come back'.

> #plan9 provides a multilingual, almost 24 hour/day, support service
> for free due to the efforts of its members.  

no, not really a 'support' service. more of a 'bash the newbie' service.

> It also serves a general port of call for those of us actively
> developing or porting to bounce ideas off of people in real-time -
> something that can't easily be done on (and isn't really suited
> for[2]) a public mailing list.

#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.

andrey/f2f