[cvsnt] Announcement Only Mailing list

[Grant Mills]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Somers [mailto:dsomers at omz13.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 4:26 PM
> To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> Cc: Grant Mills
> Subject: Re: [cvsnt] Announcement Only Mailing list
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 06 July 2005 21:56, Grant Mills wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > 	I would like to propose again the announcement only mailing
> > list.  Without this, our only hope of becoming aware of critical
> > security fixes is to check the History Page every day.  
> Please consider
> > the announcement only list again.
> 
> Or you could follow the RSS feed:
> 
> http://paris.nodomain.org/blog/xmlsrv/rss2.php?blog=5
> 
> which contains this information.
> 

My problem is that I'm leaving my current position and have been given
very few options for getting announcement information to my
replacements.  They have created an e-mail alias to which I need to have
information sent.  So far all of the other components that they will
need to handle have an announcements via e-mail: Bugzilla, Apache, PHP,
MySQL, ViewCVS (Sourceforge Monitoring).

I'm not opposed to using an RSS Feed but I'm not familiar with using
them.  As far as I understand, RSS would require me, on a daily basis,
to go visit a location to check for updates.  That puts the
responsibility on me (or my replacements) to watch for announcements.  I
think e-mail is a better solution because I read my e-mail everyday.

Being a firmware engineer, it seems like the difference between polling
for input and servicing an interrupt.  When I get interrupted, I process
the information almost immediately.  When I'm polling, the latencies
tend to be much greater: a week, month, ...

Now there may be a way for me to automate the polling to a daily
occurrence that I'm not aware of.

Not looking to start a war or change policy.  If RSS is the only method,
then I'll have to figure something out.  I was just wondering if an
announcement only was still a possibility given my somewhat archaic
needs.


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Grant Mills