From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 18 12:13:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFA7137B401 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:13:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from pohaku.hi.net (pohaku.hi.net [63.173.193.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CF3E43EC5 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:13:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken@pohaku.hi.net) Received: from lihing ([63.173.194.243]) by pohaku.hi.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gBIKD7qu018789 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:13:07 -1000 From: ken@hi.net To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:08:00 -1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: sms email alerts for freshports Message-ID: <3E004900.20614.18C2362B@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Freshports is a great tool that dvl created. I was able to get a quick notification via email of this last mysql security issue. I was very surprised that a security-notification never got sent out, and happy that dvl's tool was there. As soon as the port got updated, I was also happily sent another email and promptly updated that port. That got me thinking along another line. Wouldn't it be great if that same email (but shortened) was sent as a text message to my cell phone? I asked dvl about it, and this was his response: " ... essentially a new piece of code is needed which will take a list of ports and commit messages and trim them down to something useful. I suggest you advocate your suggestion in -chat and see how many people bite." Anyone think this would be useful? Essentially, I was thinking that an email alert via sms aka text messenging (http://www.vtext.com for an idea) might be useful for the administrator on the road. Thanks! ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message