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Earthwings
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 Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:48 pm Post subject: spamplanet.gentoo.org |
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It's getting rather annoying to see all that spam popping up in gentoo lately. store.gentoo.org came up with a very "Special Offer": Get a free Mac Mini!. Now we have seemant spamming on planet.gentoo.org. 
Well, akregator now has one feed less to check and /etc/hosts takes care of the store: | Code: | $ grep gentoo /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 store.gentoo.org |
However, I don't really want to do that with planet.gentoo.org. Is there some rss reader out there that allows me to filter such crap? |
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curtis119
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Lews_Therin
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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| curtis119 wrote: | | I'm sure Seemant was just doing it as a joke. Unlike Daniel who I think is serious about it. Doesn't he know those things are a scam? |
They're not a scam, they actually do send you whatever you signed up for. They just send a bunch of other crap along with it, and then sell your personal information to third parties. |
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cokehabit
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 10:53 pm Post subject: Re: spamplanet.gentoo.org |
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| Earthwings wrote: | It's getting rather annoying to see all that spam popping up in gentoo lately. store.gentoo.org came up with a very "Special Offer": Get a free Mac Mini!. Now we have seemant spamming on planet.gentoo.org.
Well, akregator now has one feed less to check and /etc/hosts takes care of the store: | Code: | $ grep gentoo /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 store.gentoo.org |
However, I don't really want to do that with planet.gentoo.org. Is there some rss reader out there that allows me to filter such crap? |
Personally I blame Ian! Reasons? Because i can now, he's retired, lol  |
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curtis119
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 11:14 pm Post subject: Re: spamplanet.gentoo.org |
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| cokehabit wrote: | | Earthwings wrote: | It's getting rather annoying to see all that spam popping up in gentoo lately. store.gentoo.org came up with a very "Special Offer": Get a free Mac Mini!. Now we have seemant spamming on planet.gentoo.org.
Well, akregator now has one feed less to check and /etc/hosts takes care of the store: | Code: | $ grep gentoo /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 store.gentoo.org |
However, I don't really want to do that with planet.gentoo.org. Is there some rss reader out there that allows me to filter such crap? |
Personally I blame Ian! Reasons? Because i can now, he's retired, lol |
Not retired, promoted.
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cokehabit
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 12:16 am Post subject: Re: spamplanet.gentoo.org |
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| curtis119 wrote: | | Not retired, promoted. |
ah........ Personally I blame Ian! Because he's such a nice person, you know he was always the most liked of the admins! I always had such respect for him  |
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srettub
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:38 am Post subject: |
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| Whoever put the mac mini referral link on the gentoo store's site needs his testicles ripped out. He (or she) is using a non-profit organization for personal gain, and I find that appalling. |
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asiobob
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:54 am Post subject: |
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| submit a bug report and rate it high |
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Earthwings
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:49 am Post subject: |
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Hehe, blaming ian! is hard in this case if you look at his last blog entry 
And if I'd submit a bug report, it'll be either ignored or closed INVALID cause it's Daniel Robbins very own decision what he puts in his shop. As well as they can't tell Seemant what to write in his blog. It's just annoying to miss some nice blog entries in planet.gentoo.org just because some devs think they have to abuse it for advertising get free stuff crap. |
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cokehabit
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:55 am Post subject: |
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| Earthwings wrote: | | Hehe, blaming ian! is hard in this case if you look at his last blog entry |
damn, for once i agree 100% with him |
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ciaranm
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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| srettub wrote: | | Whoever put the mac mini referral link on the gentoo store's site needs his testicles ripped out. He (or she) is using a non-profit organization for personal gain, and I find that appalling. |
No no no, you're misunderstanding. The whole store is someone using a non-profit organisation for personal gain. |
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kimchi_sg
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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| ciaranm wrote: | | The whole store is someone using a non-profit organisation for personal gain. |
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asiobob
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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| is that link real or not. |
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Earthwings
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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| ASIO_BOB wrote: | | is that link real or not. |
Which one? The one leading to the free mac minis? Yes. Reload if you get an error message the first time. |
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kimchi_sg
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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I have no problems if Daniel Robbins decides to promote spam on the Gentoo store. After all, if he promotes something, surely it can't be a dud. 
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cokehabit
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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| kimchi_sg wrote: | | I have no problems if Daniel Robbins decides to promote spam on the Gentoo store. After all, if he promotes something, surely it can't be a dud. |
i do, at the very least its in bad taste and shows lack of respect for the users of gentoo (trying to rope people into spam) |
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ciaranm
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:32 pm Post subject: |
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| cokehabit wrote: | | kimchi_sg wrote: | | I have no problems if Daniel Robbins decides to promote spam on the Gentoo store. After all, if he promotes something, surely it can't be a dud. |
i do, at the very least its in bad taste and shows lack of respect for the users of gentoo (trying to rope people into spam) |
Hey, what about showing a lack of respect for the people that make Gentoo too? Don't forget us... |
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cokehabit
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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| ciaranm wrote: | | cokehabit wrote: | | kimchi_sg wrote: | | I have no problems if Daniel Robbins decides to promote spam on the Gentoo store. After all, if he promotes something, surely it can't be a dud. |
i do, at the very least its in bad taste and shows lack of respect for the users of gentoo (trying to rope people into spam) |
Hey, what about showing a lack of respect for the people that make Gentoo too? Don't forget us... |
Well you wonderful people are always on my mind, ahhhhhhhhhh. But i can imagine how you feel, actually working for it and then see it trying to rope people into spam |
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curtis119
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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| ciaranm wrote: | | cokehabit wrote: | | kimchi_sg wrote: | | I have no problems if Daniel Robbins decides to promote spam on the Gentoo store. After all, if he promotes something, surely it can't be a dud. |
i do, at the very least its in bad taste and shows lack of respect for the users of gentoo (trying to rope people into spam) |
Hey, what about showing a lack of respect for the people that make Gentoo too? Don't forget us... |
I haven't forgotten you ciaranm. In fact I'm really pissed off about this whole thing. Did Ian really quit? I thought he got a promotion? Ian was one of the great gentoo volunteers that I looked up to. I hope that you won't follow his lead and quit as well ciarnm. You're one of the other great gentoo volunteers that I look up to. If you quit things will get dismal quick. Please stay and ride this out.
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ciaranm
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| curtis119 wrote: | | I haven't forgotten you ciaranm. In fact I'm really pissed off about this whole thing. Did Ian really quit? I thought he got a promotion? Ian was one of the great gentoo volunteers that I looked up to. I hope that you won't follow his lead and quit as well ciarnm. You're one of the other great gentoo volunteers that I look up to. If you quit things will get dismal quick. Please stay and ride this out. |
Heh, if I was going to quit because I didn't like something drobbins / the cabal was doing, I'd've left a loooooong time ago. |
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curtis119
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| ciaranm wrote: | | curtis119 wrote: | | I haven't forgotten you ciaranm. In fact I'm really pissed off about this whole thing. Did Ian really quit? I thought he got a promotion? Ian was one of the great gentoo volunteers that I looked up to. I hope that you won't follow his lead and quit as well ciarnm. You're one of the other great gentoo volunteers that I look up to. If you quit things will get dismal quick. Please stay and ride this out. |
Heh, if I was going to quit because I didn't like something drobbins / the cabal was doing, I'd've left a loooooong time ago. |
Good, that makes me feel a lot better about the situation.
I still hope that Ian reconsiders though. 
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Wait a min, when Ian talks about leaving. Is he refering to planet gentoo or the gentoo project? |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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But...but...but...
Ian was such an awesome guy. Would he really want to leave Gentoo because of this situation? (It does frustrate me too...)
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richk449
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| Maybe this isn't the appropriate place, but can anyone explain exactly what "this" situtation is? Is there some sort of scism in the gentoo devs? I know drobbins left a while ago - does he still control websites or something? |
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ciaranm
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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| richk449 wrote: | | Maybe this isn't the appropriate place, but can anyone explain exactly what "this" situtation is? Is there some sort of scism in the gentoo devs? I know drobbins left a while ago - does he still control websites or something? |
drobbins has granted himself the right to store.gentoo.org domain for all eternity whilst being under absolutely no obligation to give anything to the Gentoo Foundation. As far as I know, this has little to do with anything related Ian!. |
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