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Hello, Alan. |
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On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 08:49:37PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 20:32 on Monday 06 June 2011, Alan Mackenzie |
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> did opine thusly: |
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> > Hi, Gentoo. |
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> > Just to say I'll be withdrawing from this list in a few days, |
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> > unsubscribing actually, mainly so that I can go back to being an Emacs |
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> > developer; the number of emails on both lists combined is just more than |
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> > I can handle comfortably. |
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> > I've counted 28 questions I've asked since late 2009, and every single |
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> > one of them bar two got good answers too. One of those two I answered |
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> > myself just after posting the email ;-), and the other is currently a |
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> > bug report. |
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> > I'd like to say THANK YOU to everybody who helped me get a well running |
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> > Gentoo system and patiently taught me about it, but in particular to |
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> > Alan McKinnon because he's got such a splendid name. |
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> Aw shucks, now you made me blush :-) |
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Hah! |
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> I know what you mean about the quality of user around here - no other list I'm |
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> on anywhere else comes close. I know I whinge a lot about the many wonderful |
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> ways Gentoo can break, but I keep coming back. |
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It is only the dissatisfied who advance the state of the art. |
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> Part of it is the ease of changing things around and trying new |
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> versions, but mostly it's because of the folks here. |
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Yes, I understand. |
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> -- |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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