On 07/04/2011 08:08 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
hi guys,
We are getting ready to put the 6.0/updates into place. The prep work brought up a question that needs addressing.
There are quite a few different tools that seem to scrape the centos-announce output in order to get update metadata; therefore should we announce every update since the 6.0 release date upstream ? we might be looking at around 5 million emails being generated outbound...
if not, what are the other options / ideas ?
- KB
If people know it's coming, and if it comes in a flood, then concerned people can write a filter to redirect the flood to their trash.
Personally, I am a fan of too much info when the alternative is risking important data being missed. Just pre-define a date and time that the flood will start. Perhaps tell people to watch for a particular subject string that will indicate when the flood is complete.
Perhaps: ==== [ CentOS-devel ] == Flood Start == <announcements> [ CentOS-devel ] == Flood End == ====
A suggestion. :)