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

[Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>]

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

I have not posted my opinion of the IRC crowd.  I merely posted some
evidence that they were, one one particular occasion, completely
full of shit.  People can make their own decisions about whether
to generalize.

Tim Newsham:
> Despite what Andrey said (most of which is true), IRC is still
> the first place I'd recommend someone with a plan9 question
> go ask.  Depending on who is watching, they could get a good
> answer, or perhaps just a snide 'RTFM.'  When it works it
> works well and when it doesn't, there's 9fans for a slightly
> less timely response.

I think reading the FAQ, poking around the Wiki, and then
asking on 9fans is a much more reliable way to go.

Poking around the IRC logs from the first week of May,
I have learned that the /sys/src/9 kernels have no
SCSI support (only /sys/src/fs does) and that there is 
no way for acme to pipe the current buffer through a
program.  Sometimes, when such misinformation is stated
as fact, someone is around to correct it.  But just as often
it seems that no one is around to correct it.  And if you're
a newbie and you get the latter, I don't believe that you've
done better than asking on 9fans and waiting a little while.

Russ