Following user requests, I’ve uploaded a new version of rmrip which takes a command-line argument specifying your configuration file:
./rmrip.py foo.conf
As the user himself implied, this has the added bonus of making it more crontab-friendly e.g. you can have a crontab entry saying:
0 2 * * 2 $HOME/rmrip/rmrip.py tuesday.conf
You can download rmrip as before from http://www.jpstacey.info/blog/files/code/rmrip.tgz. Thanks to Matt for the idea.