Re: IRC mailing list bridge

Great work, Charles!

On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 9:49 AM Charles E. Lehner <
charles.lehner@spruceid.com> wrote:

> Dear CCG,
>
> Notifications of messages to this mailing list (public-credentials) are
> now sent to our IRC channel (#ccg).
>
> These are sent as IRC NOTICE messages[1] which do not appear in cgbot's
> logs or scribetool minutes. Each notice include the email subject and
> archive link.
>
> e.g. depending on your IRC client, the most recent few messages might
> appear as the following:
>
>   11:16 -- Notice(enick_862): public-credentials@w3.org  Mail Archives:
> Re: Use of cryptography with W3C VCs and DIDs released (
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2022Apr/0113.html
> )
>   19:01 -- Notice(enick_862): public-credentials@w3.org  Mail Archives:
> Re: Use of cryptography with W3C VCs and DIDs released (
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2022Apr/0114.html
> )
>   00:41 -- Notice(enick_862): public-credentials@w3.org  Mail Archives:
> Verifiable Web Form (
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2022Apr/0115.html
> )
>
> Maybe this can useful for people who stay in IRC to see and/or comment on
> what's happening on the mailing list. The notifications have been running
> for a few days now without issue. If it becomes annoying we could disable
> it.
>
> These notifications are sent by an RSS Bot[2] set up via Matrix.org in a
> Matrix room bridged to the IRC channel. Since it's based on RSS feed
> polling, there is a delay, which may be up to about 6 minutes it seems.
>
> Regards,
> Charles E. Lehner
>
> P.S.
> See you at IIW!
>
> [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2812#section-3.3.2
> [2]
> https://ems-docs.element.io/Frequently-Asked-Questions.html#how-do-i-add-rss-integration-to-my-matrix-server
>