[cvsnt] Announcement Only Mailing list

[Grant Mills]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: keith d. zimmerman [mailto:lists at kdz13.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 7:30 PM
> To: Grant Mills
> Cc: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> Subject: Re: [cvsnt] Announcement Only Mailing list
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 

kz,
	Now I've got something to potentially work with.  I'll start
looking for it too.  My configuration is on a Windows Server 2003 box,
can you think of any reason why that would be a problem?  Other than a
lack of sendmail.  I've already got something to substitute for that.
	Thanks in advance.

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Grant Mills