[csw-maintainers] Security alerts and updates

[James Lee]

On 06/02/09, 00:16:27, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote regarding Re: 
[csw-maintainers] Security alerts and updates:

> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 04:18:59PM -0600, Mike Watters wrote:
> >
> > off hand we could get an RSS feed from one or more of the sites, merge
> > them together and filter them based on the software in our catalog.
> >

> perhaps it would be nice to have a 'security-announce'

+1

> AND also send out an RSS update, n stuff.

The problem with RSS it doesn't "send out" but is polled.  Although
email, eg POP3, is also polled it is doing all your emails and the
originating server isn't polled but pushes via SMTP.



James.