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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 cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook >>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