[cvsnt] Announcement Only Mailing list

[keith d. zimmerman]

Grant Mills wrote:
>>-----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.
> 

somewhere out there on the www there is a rss2email python script.  I've a 
copy... somewhere... maybe...  I can look if you are interested.  It's designed 
to be run hourly from a crontab.

-kz