@sysadmin: can you send me the gnu.org/nongnu.org update scripts and Apache config so I can see what we can do?
I think the proposed functionality is a bad idea, for the reasons stated, but I nevertheless feel compelled to pass along that the Apache config is mirrored to fencepost:/srv/data/www-config (and the full live www.gnu.org web site in sibling dir www-mirror). The update scripts, I have never seen. k