From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OG9ro-00065C-4w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 23 May 2010 12:01:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF3F6E07A7; Sun, 23 May 2010 12:00:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dcnode-02.unlimitedmail.net (smtp.unlimitedmail.net [94.127.184.242]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62DD7E07A7 for ; Sun, 23 May 2010 12:00:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from scooter.localnet (hex.aaisp.net.uk [90.155.53.9] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by dcnode-02.unlimitedmail.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o4NC07hU029212 for ; Sun, 23 May 2010 14:00:07 +0200 From: Etaoin Shrdlu To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Phonon + PulseAudio Problem Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 12:49:14 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.32-gentoo-r7; KDE/4.3.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <201005192159.29314.koesterreich@gmx.net> <201005231221.39616.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201005231249.14192.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> X-UnlimitedMail-MailScanner-ID: o4NC07hU029212 X-UnlimitedMail-MailScanner-From: shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: 288d974d-ec3c-4b8b-bc1d-a72242449d33 X-Archives-Hash: fcb379d576642e5a768e3d21c5dd8d7a On Sunday 23 May 2010, Indexer wrote: > On 23/05/2010, at 8:51 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > On Sunday 23 May 2010, Fabian K=F6ster wrote: > >>> I WANT TO UNSUBSCRIBE > >> > >> Maybe you should just do it and stop making noise: > >> > >> gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org > > > > It would be great if mailing list software could be configured so that > > only users who demonstrate they know how to unsubscribe could subscribe > > in the first place. Example: > > > > - user subscribes > > - mailing list replies: "please unsubscribe and subscribe again" > > - if user fails to do so within a configurable amount of time, forcibly > > unsubscribe him > > - if user succeeds, leave him subscribed after the second subscription. > > > > Just saying... >=20 > You may as well attach an IQ test as well. The fact is that it is easy to > read how to unsubscribe, as well as that it is simple to not click and > open every piece of email you recieve, so complaints like this are rather > baseless. Uh? If it's so easy to read how to unsubscribe, why so many people=20 periodically beg for help to unsubscribe, or send useless "unsubscribe"=20 messages to mailing lists? And yes, it's not so strange that to be accepted as part of a group you may= be=20 asked to demonstrate that you know what the rules are. It happens all the t= ime=20 in fact.