Set up a mail alias or procmail script that converts it to whatever
form you want. Polling in this manner is *extremely* wasteful of
server resources.
> ...it would be VERY nice if the finger interface could reflect the latest
> patch released (ie pre-patches and so on), perhaps the latest file
> uploaded. maby a finger to prepatch@ftp.kernel.org to see the file with
> the last date...? :)
This is very hard/impossible to do automatically, since Linus doesn't
really use any particular procedure for the prepatches. They are
meant to be highly informal, so that probably won't happen. The
*last* thing we want, I suspect, are people grabbing prepatches
without reading Linus' notes on linux-kernel.
-hpa