Help with Notify without CVS_watch_on

[Jason C Toole]

Forgive me, I'm new!

Does anyone have a detailed description of how to be notified via
email WITHOUT using CVS Watch On?  Here's what I want to accomplish. 
I want people to be notified when ANY of a whole group of files
is "edit"ed "unedit"ed "commit"ed etc.  But we don't want the
developers to have to use the "cvs edit" command to edit the files. 
Are any of these things possible?  Also, I'd need pretty specific
instructions since I'm still wet behind the ears!  Thanks!

Jay.

PS. What I've done so far.  Added ALL mail %s -s "CVS notification"
to the notify file

Created "users" file with "name:emailaddress" for all users.