Re: [nznog] NZNOG & Discussion Topics

Leo Vegoda wrote:

Hi,

On 12/03/2009 7:32, "Joe Abley" wrote:

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Just so long as everybody remembers that the point of NZNOG is to help operators, not to cause them to have to do more work. Anything that can realistically hope to help with the latter without getting in the way of the former ought to be worthy of consideration, regardless of whether it has universal appeal.

In that spirit I'll repeat my suggestion for the update messages to include diffs.

I don't know what software is being run but if it's the RIPE database software then the update processor can be told to produce diffs in the notification messages it sends. If it's a different database then I'm fairly sure it's quite easy to plug in. I just know that knowing what the change is is probably a dead useful feature.

http://www.ripe.net/db/news/update-changes-200410.html

(see item #3)

I filter all the NZRR mail through a script I wrote that provides diffs, and annotates various parts of the message to make it more easy to read. I don't redistribute this anywhere, but if Andy wants I can dig the script out and give it to him. Instead of a seperate list for the NZRR mail, using mailman's "topic"'s might be more appropriate. Each user can select which subset of topics they want to subscribe to. We could even have an "xtra-whining" topic, that mail that matches a regex such as /xtra.*mail/i automatically gets filtered into that people can also unsubscribe from <grin>