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 1QTuJa-00041G-Hw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:19:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E8E11C114 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 11:19:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AA891C0CF for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 11:05:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 50579 invoked by uid 3782); 7 Jun 2011 11:05:23 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD955681B.dip.t-dialin.net [217.85.104.27]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:05:22 +0200 Received: (qmail 8271 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Jun 2011 11:04:09 -0000 Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 11:04:09 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Thanks for all the fish! Message-ID: <20110607110409.GF3176@acm.acm> References: <20110606183211.GA3768@acm.acm> <201106062049.38095.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201106062049.38095.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fa89a1e39814f055ac584d9663fb7f46 Hello, Alan. On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 08:49:37PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:32 on Monday 06 June 2011, Alan Mackenzie > did opine thusly: > > Hi, Gentoo. > > Just to say I'll be withdrawing from this list in a few days, > > unsubscribing actually, mainly so that I can go back to being an Emacs > > developer; the number of emails on both lists combined is just more than > > I can handle comfortably. > > I've counted 28 questions I've asked since late 2009, and every single > > one of them bar two got good answers too. One of those two I answered > > myself just after posting the email ;-), and the other is currently a > > bug report. > > I'd like to say THANK YOU to everybody who helped me get a well running > > Gentoo system and patiently taught me about it, but in particular to > > Alan McKinnon because he's got such a splendid name. > Aw shucks, now you made me blush :-) Hah! > I know what you mean about the quality of user around here - no other list I'm > on anywhere else comes close. I know I whinge a lot about the many wonderful > ways Gentoo can break, but I keep coming back. It is only the dissatisfied who advance the state of the art. > Part of it is the ease of changing things around and trying new > versions, but mostly it's because of the folks here. Yes, I understand. > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).