If there's community consensus that this would help, mailing list footers can be added via an INFRA request. Here are some example requests from Hadoop and Spark:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-10725 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-8051 Dave On 2017-04-25 08:11 (-0700), Michael Shuler <mich...@pbandjelly.org> wrote: > On 04/25/2017 09:56 AM, Eric Evans wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 2:56 AM, Alain RODRIGUEZ <arodr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Should / could we have INFRA automatically unsubscribing people sending > >> those messages? I believe this would be the best solution, as more people > >> mentioned a year ago. I would like at least those messages to be filtered, > >> even that is a bit more selfish as it would not end the subscription for > >> the person sending the message, it would at least reduce the noise. > > > > I'd be in favor of filtering them from the list, with an > > auto-responder that explained *why* it wasn't delivered, and what they > > need to do to unsubscribe (and maybe setting the reply-to to > > {list}-unsubscribe@cassandra.a.o). > > > > I'm fairly certain the list software doesn't come ready to do this > > though; I imagine the response from INFRA will be something like > > "patches welcome", so we should be ready to rollup our sleeves. > > Many lists include a footer that have unsub info - does ezmlm support > footer append? I wouldn't mind it, if it helps users, and it seems > simpler than trying to filter random messages. > > -- > Michael > >
