Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:04:28 -0600 From: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: Jason R Mastaler <jason@mastaler.com>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New ports added/updated last two weeks Message-ID: <20001211190428.Y86825@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20001211181413.E831@puck.firepipe.net>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 06:14:13PM -0500 References: <200012101503.QAA01111@paula.panke.de.freebsd.org> <x7aea337r8.fsf@aguirre.la.mastaler.com> <20001211181413.E831@puck.firepipe.net>
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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.
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