From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] the futility of #plan9 on irc Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 17:57:01 -0600 From: andrey mirtchovski In-Reply-To: <20050523233359.GD14127@xware.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 510d8ba6-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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