From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:20:37 +0000 From: ericvh Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: [9fans] plan9dev@googlegroups.com Topicbox-Message-UUID: c75a6250-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 In an effort to combat the spam and whining that seems to have permeated the comp.os.plan9 newgroup and 9fans mailing list, I've created a new mailing list for Plan 9 developers on googlegroups.com. This way, when something goes wrong with the list, we can blame Rob ;) I created this list to: a) see what Google's mailing list/groups stuff looked like b) out of frustration with the 9fans mailing list and comp.os.plan9 newsgroup The intent of this list is for people who are actually working on Plan 9 projects to be able to communicate. This is not an advocacy list, nor is it a place to whine about incumbent operating systems or lack of some functionality/application within Plan 9. Hopefully, our good friends at Google will be better at filtering/preventing the spam that seems to have infiltrated the 9fans list and dominate the comp.os.plan9 newsgroup. If it does a better job, we may want to think about migrating 9fans to it. I've left the list as subscriber-only posting to help mitigate the spam problem. I don't think we need to go to an invite-only system, but maybe that will be the next step. URL: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/plan9dev Email: plan9dev@googlegroups.com ---- Who the hell am I? I worked at the labs from 1996 till 2001, mostly on Inferno, but also on Plan 9. I've been rather silent and inactive lately, but have recently found a way to work on Plan 9 in the context of my day job -- so hopefully I'll be a productive member of the community once again. I don't know if this list is a good idea or not, but I figured I'd give it a try. -eric