Deprecated - Usability feedback

As a drupal site admin, I'd like to receive an email every time there is a release of a new version of drupal. I've been looking around the site, but I can't find anything that serves this purpose.

Here's what I've found:

Drupal Newsletter - A quarterly newsletter about events in the drupal world. While this may incidentally include release announcements, it is not sent out when the announcement is made. The latest newsletter, for example, mentions that 4 beta releases have been made for Drupal 4.7, but doesn't list the 4.6.5 release in December.

Security announcements - Lists any security-related announcements about Drupal. This is great; I get the security announcements when they happen and can decide whether I need to take any action.

Mailing Lists - A variety of relatively high-traffic discussion lists.

News and announcements - Forum for news and announcements. This contains the announcements for official releases as sticky items, but it contains garbage that I don't want to sort through, and doesn't contain beta release announcements. I could add that feed to my newsreader, but it includes items I don't want and, really, I'd prefer an email notice.

I have installed drupal on a free webhost, but this one does not support smtp. This is a problem, because drupal use this with a registration of members. I think a register form, where users can just make there own password would be a great solution, but i looked at the module and since i`m not a genius with php it will be problem to fix this. Is there any module to fix this, or does anyone have another solution?

Thanx, mcvegan.

Pardon my newbieness but IMHO it seems there is a disease that plauges the Open source community and from the two weeks that I have spent trying to do things with this software - that drupal is in no way immune.

No offense but the power and hard work that you people put into this project becomes moot if the avg joe smoe can't get up and going.

Unless this is an elitist club or something.

What is the problem with giving DETAILED instructions?

When someone comes to this forum and asks - How do I place banners at the top of the page?

Someone replies - Just use the banner module.

Great thanks for lending a helping hand - I know you mean well - but you didn't answer the question.

Or the reply comes - I did it using this mod and that node.

Great thanks for lending a helping hand - I know you mean well - but you didn't answer the question.

The question is HOW

What did you do?
What steps did you take?
What code did you generate?
Where EXACTLY did you place the code in the temp - (as in between what two tags.)

Maybe its just me - (so I will speak for just me) although I sense the same thing from other newbie posts that I read in here.

When someone comes in here and asks a question on how to do something it is generally because they have exhausted their brain on tying to accomplish it on their own (and yes they spent a day or two searching through the forum to no avail) so they come in here and post the question looking for someone who has been there and done that to help them get through this bump in the road.

I just discovered elgg, when I was trying to figure out how to make organic groups work properly. Elgg has many terrific features of the type show-this-post-only-to-my-friends built-in, that work pretty much at the click of a button. It seems far easier to use than organic groups, both in terms of admin and user interface, and without a lot of the node-access errors that keep showing up on my site. What I'm reading today suggests that a lot of people think elgg and moodle together would do perhaps 90% of what I'm trying to do with Drupal (not the ecommerce portion).

Would it be possible to get better documentation on the correct syntax for constructing URLs via vocabularies and terms?

There is this: http://drupal.org/node/22273, which shows a few basics, but I can't see any comprehensive documentation on how to use commands that I've seen referenced in some forum topics, ie:

chunk (tagadelic module)
list
view
all

Hi

I had no idea where to post this but i'm a new user in the Drupal community and as soon as 4.7 becomes stable my company will be offering preinstalled Drupal accounts here in Sweden. Simply because i've tried many other Content Management Systems and none could beat Drupal, combined with the fact that Drupal 4.7 has good PostgreSQL support and because Drupal has support for multiple sites on one installation. I will be translating the Swedish language file, which is half translated by someone who has been making up words that don't exist in the Swedish language, but until then here is a small script that runs cron.php for multiple websites. Put this in crontab instead of cron.php and change the path to suit your system. Just make sure the sites have directories named after their domain, for example site.drupal.org which would be ok or just drupal.org.