[gentoo-user] How can I unsubscribe from gentoo-news?

[gentoo-user] How can I unsubscribe from gentoo-news?

[Jarry]

Hi Gentoo-users,

I'd like to stop receiving news, how can I do that?

Or better said, I'd like to receive gentoo-news only
on one of my 6 servers, and turn this feature off
on remaining 5...

Jarry
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Re: [gentoo-user] How can I unsubscribe from gentoo-news?

[Alan McKinnon]

On 27/08/2013 18:35, Jarry wrote:
> Hi Gentoo-users,
> 
> I'd like to stop receiving news, how can I do that?
> 
> Or better said, I'd like to receive gentoo-news only
> on one of my 6 servers, and turn this feature off
> on remaining 5...
> 
> Jarry



It's in the mail headers:

<mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org>

you would obviously use -news and not -user


Normal practice (at least with Mailman) is to have such links in the
email footer. I see Gentoo lists don't do that; I believe because they
run Encartis?

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Re: [gentoo-user] How can I unsubscribe from gentoo-news?

[Wang Xuerui]

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在 2013-8-28 上午4:03，"Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>写道：
>
> On 27/08/2013 18:35, Jarry wrote:
> > Hi Gentoo-users,
> >
> > I'd like to stop receiving news, how can I do that?
> >
> > Or better said, I'd like to receive gentoo-news only
> > on one of my 6 servers, and turn this feature off
> > on remaining 5...
> >
> > Jarry
>
>
>
> It's in the mail headers:
>
> <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org>
>
> you would obviously use -news and not -user
>
>
> Normal practice (at least with Mailman) is to have such links in the
> email footer. I see Gentoo lists don't do that; I believe because they
> run Encartis?
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
>
>

Ah, I think he actually means those news items as seen in "eselect news
read", as some keywords like "server" and "turn off" suggest...

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Re: [gentoo-user] How can I unsubscribe from gentoo-news?

[Jarry]

On 27-Aug-13 21:59, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 27/08/2013 18:35, Jarry wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to stop receiving news, how can I do that?
>>
>> Or better said, I'd like to receive gentoo-news only
>> on one of my 6 servers, and turn this feature off
>> on remaining 5...
>
>
> It's in the mail headers:
> <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org>
>
> you would obviously use -news and not -user

I probably did not express myself correctly. What I mean
is portage-news. News I get sometimes after "emerge --sync".
Not news-mailinglist...

Jarry
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Re: [gentoo-user] How can I unsubscribe from gentoo-news?

[Alan McKinnon]

On 27/08/2013 22:19, Jarry wrote:
> On 27-Aug-13 21:59, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On 27/08/2013 18:35, Jarry wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd like to stop receiving news, how can I do that?
>>>
>>> Or better said, I'd like to receive gentoo-news only
>>> on one of my 6 servers, and turn this feature off
>>> on remaining 5...
>>
>>
>> It's in the mail headers:
>> <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org>
>>
>> you would obviously use -news and not -user
> 
> I probably did not express myself correctly. What I mean
> is portage-news. News I get sometimes after "emerge --sync".
> Not news-mailinglist...

Ah, that makes more sense ;-)
I *did* wonder why you hadn't thought to read the headers!

from the GLEP:

Users who really don't care about news items can use rsync_excludes to
filter out the metadata/news/ directory.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0042.html


man 5 make.conf also documents FEATURES=news
Oddly enough, we all know how to enable FEATURES (just add to the list),
but I have no idea how to disable them!

I don't have news in my FEATURES but I do get the newsitems. Is

FEATURES=-news

even valid sysntax?


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Re: [gentoo-user] How can I unsubscribe from gentoo-news?

[Paul Hartman]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> man 5 make.conf also documents FEATURES=news
> Oddly enough, we all know how to enable FEATURES (just add to the list),
> but I have no idea how to disable them!
>
> I don't have news in my FEATURES but I do get the newsitems. Is
>
> FEATURES=-news
>
> even valid sysntax?

I believe that is the correct way to do it.

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I unsubscribe from gentoo-news?

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 08/27/2013 05:09 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> man 5 make.conf also documents FEATURES=news
>> Oddly enough, we all know how to enable FEATURES (just add to the list),
>> but I have no idea how to disable them!
>>
>> I don't have news in my FEATURES but I do get the newsitems. Is
>>
>> FEATURES=-news
>>
>> even valid sysntax?
> 
> I believe that is the correct way to do it.
> 

Or stick 'eselect news read new' in one of your coworkers' ~/.bashrc files.

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I unsubscribe from gentoo-news?

[Mick]

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On Tuesday 27 Aug 2013 22:09:12 Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > man 5 make.conf also documents FEATURES=news
> > Oddly enough, we all know how to enable FEATURES (just add to the list),
> > but I have no idea how to disable them!
> > 
> > I don't have news in my FEATURES but I do get the newsitems. Is
> > 
> > FEATURES=-news
> > 
> > even valid sysntax?
> 
> I believe that is the correct way to do it.

In case it doesn't work or cause an error, also try "" marks:

FEATURES="-news"

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Mick

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