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 1OsvPF-0002mZ-NW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:28:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CFB19E09A2; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 10:27:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93180E09A2 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 10:27:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyf6 with SMTP id 6so2485423eyf.40 for ; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:27:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=S/kAvzr6XKbRzaeHfFT6NtnKZArkEwFMFyeZlBKh+WI=; b=h+EFrIJOfkdEgWeR1RoZTf9qHQ/EZDVAATTidbsojBI1Luo7T3KmiLNx5MmtY+Blr+ +VZHQWTXfTm0AzODIIJfASMyh+oI7h3VbSPrzhPyHc0wmF+DLM5dgePQNicXDr4NHqO7 eC8jOhl77orSHUHJ6ldO/D25euXrdq/CUYBJA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Ag79T/j0P/VyNdny1MJP8HIt6ZIDrGgFw3TN37DHjR6AhbyseZewG7CPiqYjjW3mfn d+xtDAqCLuKJb6zkVXx7v8bh/36NmukZgsWkMidcmTsqmWY4hSWRw6Asqwf+Oz9o8YTq wU8+D7LhEdzWj8z1NDO9bSYx9ED28zjn9jgvE= Received: by 10.213.13.142 with SMTP id c14mr1759293eba.84.1283855246008; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:27:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z55sm9656505eeh.21.2010.09.07.03.27.23 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:27:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 12:24:26 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-ck-r2; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Al References: <201009070812.10987.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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: 7bit Message-Id: <201009071224.26780.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 9b04d444-8a3a-4759-99d8-49c196bad976 X-Archives-Hash: 2d72deeba1fa7a2e74efcf0fcab64e04 Apparently, though unproven, at 12:05 on Tuesday 07 September 2010, Al did opine thusly: > > I don't know who this fellow Al is, but he seems to have a stuck idea > > from 10+ years ago. Gentoo doesn't have a newsgroup probably because > > Gentoo users do not want one. > > My father hasn't internet at all and he doesn't miss it. There are > even people that can't read. They don't miss it. There are devolopers > that never used a version management. They think they don't want it. > > So what do you want to say? > > Gentoo is developers network not a rest home. We've been here a while and no-one has voiced a desire for a newsgroup. Therefore there isn't one. You are new here and your desires appear to conflict with the overall group. See where we're going with this? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com