Apparently, though unproven, at 19:13 on Wednesday 25 May 2011, Volker Armin Hemmann did opine thusly:
> Oh - and you should spend some time on Alan's postings. He is not only a > certified OLD FART, he has some serious first hand, real world experience > that makes most of the other OLD FARTs on this list look like noobs. Oh, I don't know about that so much. OK, I agree on the old fart bit. But many days Neil and Paul can make me look like a blithering idiot :-) Incidentally, this gentoo-user list has the highest concentration of seriously knowledgeable folk across a wide spectrum of any list/forum/whatever I've ever come across. Sometimes, it's frightening. I just wanted to put that out there - positive reinforcement. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com