I believe this forum has the ability to have "announce" threads, where only users with privileges can post.
Folks can PM (or whatever other means maemo.org offers) or contact outside maemo.org new info. they find to that maintainer (or maintainers), who can post that new snippet.
Doesn't take a huge amount of time, just need confirmation that it's do-able & a person (or persons) willing to do it.

Then we can have sep. "general digest" thread, although (like you) I'm in two minds about their separation.
In some ways I think it makes more sense that they're one & the same, but ggabriel made a good point about why maybe it's best that they're not.