separate emails to fedora-legacy-announce for each OS

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It would be good if the fedora-legacy-announce emails had the same
format as the fedora-announce-list emails.  Specifically, each message
should state the distro it's for in the subject.  I don't like having
to dig (deeply) through each email to determine if the update applies
to one of my systems.  I'd rather be able to look at the summary at
the top of the daily archive message and see it in the list there.

I have a script that I cut-n-paste the archive index to (below), that
checks whether I got the updates automatically.  It greps out the
current version in the list and then does and rpm -q on the full
package name.  Any "not installeds" and I know that for some reasons
my updates are failing.  That can happen for many reasons:
	my laptop battery ran down and that turns off crond to save power
	my local mirror stopped getting updates
	yum.conf got messed up
	there was a package conflict with an external package
	etc.
At least the first two of these happen quietly.

I can't use a script like that on Legacy messages, because the info on
what OS version it's for isn't in the message subjects, because all
the OS updates are reported in a single email.

In pre-post discussions, it was suggested that my suggestion would
proliferate the number of emails.  While true, the solution already
exists: get the list in archive form on a daily basis (when there is
mail at all).  The announcements are not of a down-to-the-minute,
time-critical nature.  An alternative would be to have a list per
release.  But, I think following the Fedora Project would be the way
to go.

So, following the pre-post discussions, I'll ask:

How do others feel about following Fedora's one-post-per-OS scheme?

--jh--

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