From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Dec 11 17: 4:31 2000 From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 17:04:29 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [207.154.226.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5531437B400 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:04:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1098) id 8A1082B2AC; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:04:28 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:04:28 -0600 From: Bill Fumerola To: Will Andrews Cc: Jason R Mastaler , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New ports added/updated last two weeks Message-ID: <20001211190428.Y86825@elvis.mu.org> References: <200012101503.QAA01111@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org> <20001211181413.E831@puck.firepipe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001211181413.E831@puck.firepipe.net>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 06:14:13PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-FEARSOME-20001103 i386 Sender: billf@elvis.mu.org Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 06:14:13PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 09:24:27PM -0700, Jason R Mastaler wrote: > > This summary is very useful, but would it be possible to send it out > > to the freebsd-announce list as well? This way those interested in > > just the new/update ports summary would not have to subscribe to the > > high volume ports mailing list. The NetBSD project for example is > > already doing this for their packages collection (once per month). > > I remember when someone else asked this question eons ago. I don't > remember why it was shot down, because I find the idea very nice. It > might be that the email is a bit large. I don't know.. Because it was too frequent to appear on announce, I believe. ports-announce@freebsd.org or something was suggested however, which is a happy medium to me, but I don't remember what the final result was. -- Bill Fumerola - security yahoo / Yahoo! inc. - fumerola@yahoo-inc.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message