On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 17:00:11 -0400 "Kevin A. McGrail" <kmcgr...@pccc.com> wrote:
> On 10/27/2014 4:48 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > > On 10/27/2014 4:45 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: > >> So... > >> > >> How hard would it be to have the mailing list quarantine a message > >> whose subject consists solely of the word "unsubscribe" ? > >> > >> Do we have the technology? :) > > Heh... Apparently more needed than I hoped. I'll have to ask the > > foundation if they can implement something to achieve this. > I've emailed infra with the following request: > > ...we have been getting consistent unsubscribe messages posted to > the entire users list which begs the question if there is a way to > redirect those to the mailing list owner instead of just posting > them? > Redirecting them makes people lazy. Better than annoying but they don't learn anything except to repeat their mistakes. Someone ran a list that caught unsubscribe messages from list members and bounced them with a note added to use the unsubscribe address. No one annoyed except the lazy unsubscriber. Don't recall who it was and never found out how. jd
