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 1QTfKi-0007nk-UJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:19:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 771591C1E4; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 19:16:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www01.badapple.net (www01.badapple.net [64.79.219.163]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F7DE1C1E4 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 19:16:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (173-8-169-73-SFBA.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.169.73]) (Authenticated sender: ramin@badapple.net) by www01.badapple.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9609F9FAFC3A for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 12:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DED27A8.6090007@badapple.net> Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:16:56 -0700 From: kashani User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 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] Thanks for all the fish! References: <20110606183211.GA3768@acm.acm> In-Reply-To: <20110606183211.GA3768@acm.acm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 835c17370e11ab0ed221405aafcacd94 On 6/6/2011 11:32 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > 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. > Good luck with all your future endeavors. Your participation will be missed, but that does not diminish the years you've put into Gentoo. FWIW, I delete 95% of the threads on gentoo-user because of time or inapplicability to my systems or interests. I've also dropped my mail list subscriptions way way down over the years. It's something that everyone ends up doing as their priorities change or as interests focus. kashani