On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Andrea Pescetti <[email protected]> wrote: <snip>
> I would turn the post you describe into a warning that the mailing list > address will change, including all information about Apache but not > requiring users to take action. I volunteer to consolidate the 12 lists into > 3 and to subscribe users to the right ones (of course, being "project owner" > of it.openoffice.org, I have a list of all subscribers to the 12 lists). > I did an experiment on how we can subscribe users to the mailing list automatically. I looked just at the technical aspect of this. I did not look at the legal or policy implications. Moderators of Apache lists can subscribe new users to the list, by sending a specially addressed email to the list manager. For example, to subscribe [email protected] to this list, you would send an email to: [email protected] Note the @ in the address is replaced by an = A moderator can do the above, but this still will generate a confirmation email, to [email protected], in English: ----------------- "Subject: confirm subscribe to [email protected] Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the [email protected] mailing list. I'm working for my owner, who can be reached at [email protected]. To confirm that you would like [email protected] added to the ooo-dev mailing list, please send a short reply to this address: [email protected] Usually, this happens when you just hit the "reply" button. If this does not work, simply copy the address and paste it into the "To:" field of a new message. or click here: mailto:[email protected]"; ----------------- So with the moderator rights available to us now, we can't do a fully automated sign up of existing list members, even if we had resolved the legal and policy issues. I don't know if there are other, administrative functions in ezmlm that could be used, by Apache Infra, to more fully automate this. -Rob
