Moving Forward
What I didn't anticipate is google limiting BCC recipients to 25 per message and 200/day. That wasn't a problem initially but now the list is up to 363 users and I do the distro emails myself. As the list gets bigger, I will eventually abandon the task. Don't worry though. I'll continue to update the canned response to include the most up to date links and I'm sure Forge's minions will continue to provide notifications when a new version is available. The canned response is set up to only fire off if the sender hasn't received it in the last 4 days so checking everyday for updates isn't going to accomplish anything. Just watch this forum for updates and then send your emails when needed.
Is there anyway to set up an actual distribution list in gmail? If so, can you just put everyone in the distro and just call that distro in the BCC?