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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-desktop] Re: UNSUBSCRIBE
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 03:17:19
Message-Id: pan.2011.03.17.03.15.08@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] UNSUBSCRIBE by Dale
1 Dale posted on Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:41:09 -0500 as excerpted:
2
3 > And let's not forget, they almost certainly got the instructions to
4 > subscribe off the Gentoo mailing list page. Most any mailing list I
5 > have ever seen has the instructions to subscribe and unsubscribe on the
6 > same page.
7 >
8 > Sort of weird people can't remember how they subscribed.
9
10 Well, given what Gentoo is, a Linux (meta)distribution that while it
11 generally does have quite good documentation (by the time it reaches
12 stable, at least), it expects users to have some intellect and not be
13 afraid to use it, and doesn't apologize for not doing any hand-holding
14 (the typical saying, "If it breaks, you get to keep the pieces", if you
15 can't/won't read them...
16
17 Think about it. If you somehow mistakenly thought Gentoo was for you but
18 you couldn't/wouldn't read docs, wouldn't you be trying to unsubscribe as
19 well... and having problems because you /couldn't/ (or at least didn't)
20 read the docs. =:^)
21
22 Face it. There's a lot more folks that like the "we make what would be
23 your decisions for you" Ubuntus and Macs of the world than like the Gentoos
24 and the LFSs (Linux-from-Scratchs). They'll be like a beached whale on
25 Gentoo, and Gentoo really doesn't make any apologies for it, being quite
26 happy to point them to Ubuntu, etc, if they're that kind of user.
27
28 --
29 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
30 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
31 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman