Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-incubator-ooo-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-ooo-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 362CC7347 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:57:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 97591 invoked by uid 500); 20 Oct 2011 14:57:27 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-ooo-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 97526 invoked by uid 500); 20 Oct 2011 14:57:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ooo-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 97518 invoked by uid 99); 20 Oct 2011 14:57:26 -0000 Received: from minotaur.apache.org (HELO minotaur.apache.org) (140.211.11.9) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:57:26 +0000 Received: from localhost (HELO mail-vw0-f47.google.com) (127.0.0.1) (smtp-auth username robweir, mechanism plain) by minotaur.apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:57:26 +0000 Received: by vwe42 with SMTP id 42so2209560vwe.6 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:57:25 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.30.194 with SMTP id u2mr10935149vdh.13.1319122645532; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.161.20 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:57:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E9F2EE4.1080500@openoffice.org> References: <4E9F2EE4.1080500@openoffice.org> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:57:25 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Proposal] Shutting down legacy OOo mailing lists From: Rob Weir To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > 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 foo@bar.com to this list, you would send an email to: ooo-dev-subscribe-foo=bar.com@incubator.apache.org Note the @ in the address is replaced by an = A moderator can do the above, but this still will generate a confirmation email, to foo@bar.com, in English: ----------------- "Subject: confirm subscribe to ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org mailing list. I'm working for my owner, who can be reached at ooo-dev-owner@incubator.apache.org. To confirm that you would like foo@bar.com added to the ooo-dev mailing list, please send a short reply to this address: ooo-dev-sc.XXXXX.XXXXX-foo=bar.com@incubator.apache.org 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:ooo-dev-sc.XXXXX.XXXXXX-foo=bar.com@incubator.apache.org" ----------------- 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