From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L4Yuy-00015L-3S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:43:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54D36E0443; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:43:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FD3EE0443 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:43:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so2300265rvf.46 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:43:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ixd+9q6MMBv2L9zwvw5FyNlfWDhkVwPVWlJLgdQa2R4=; b=aAEHPCmdUIVoBKc3n33o5Rf/AFK4K0EXdorVMsFgo7saDhreUD7UEpBpgueSB8HXwL wQdGGUmBK7MRNKOCMNr0K6IiMEolBmpc18FablD0iluuYgu5nd0rPw38/z972hyBuuDK L/3/izwKhTNveurrLgbdUbad0mCPIHVa/T/Pk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=olBDzO/o7fM4XehKzcRweZ70xvQgB6HMiVA6gT/pVba3ve/iTfHt7r1QBr7N7XwB/d 7zxNHO0eqmK1tiUvLFGcq0DWckzvyJM6cXbQDKlqlEmqea8eBHzgs47Y5ipE4sConE0w aQZ1HF6Whibn0X4K3Ltq71h3VQzTpNx5f1jww= Received: by 10.141.89.13 with SMTP id r13mr1797349rvl.214.1227523425949; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:43:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.230.117.254? (dialup-4.230.117.254.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.230.117.254]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g31sm12161529rvb.7.2008.11.24.02.43.43 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:43:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <492A855B.5050101@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:43:39 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081123 SeaMonkey/1.1.13 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Masking for Educational Purposes only ? References: <6142e6140811240141ua9ff438w42107836e92397b@mail.gmail.com> <492A7AD1.2010108@gmail.com> <6142e6140811240210n22e74398v6d39620bd3a78e69@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6142e6140811240210n22e74398v6d39620bd3a78e69@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e9d330d4-57fe-40ea-adad-6198a9032375 X-Archives-Hash: 659f59f10787815462e5659fe558855e Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > 2008/11/24 Dale : > >> Of course, there is the Gentoo monthly newsletter. Supposed to be >> monthly anyway. I haven't seen one in a while so it may be going >> quarterly this time. ;-) >> >> I do wish they had or would use a announce mailing list to inform people >> of changes, big ones anyway, that are coming or in the process of >> happening. At least that way we would know what is about to get borked >> or worse and require some huge emerges to get back on track. >> > > Well, this is probably another thing that has not reached the user > base :-) The main author of the GWN sent a message to the > gentoo-dev-announce mailing-list: > > Hi Folks, > > I've been extremely busy traveling & attending conferences for the > last few weeks and will be required to continue the same for atleast 2 > weeks more; and nightmorph is just recovering from his failed > hardware. As a result, there will be no October issue of the GMN. We > hope to resume to normality by the end of November. > > Apologies. > > I remember seeing that. Sounds like they need three people in the loop instead of two. Bad things happen. About three weeks ago I was in the hospital not sure I was going to live so I know first hand how downhill things can go in a huge hurry. Someone will come up with a plan at some point, I just hope it is sooner rather than later. Dale :-) :-)