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From: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: Mailing list freebsd-port-announce
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"Jonathan M. Bresler" wrote:
> 
>  > Many users ask me if I can sent the 'New ports added/updated last two
> > weeks' mail to a low volume mailing list.
> >
> > freebsd-announce is not the right mailing list - some users
> > don't wants ports information or large mails.
> >
> > So I think we should setup a moderated freebsd-port-announce
> > mailing list.
> 
>         you may be right......or perhpas we can create a
> ports-announce web page  which will contain each 'new ports' message
> as it is generated.  not too much to ask for them to check one web
> page every two weeks.
> 
>         thoughts?

Would it be feasible to dump the 'new ports' messages into a database and have
the web page created dynamically? More initial setup, but less maintenance.

-Brandon

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