add 'unsubscribe' command to remove users from mailing lists

[Joachim Kainz]

It would be great if launchpad would parse e-mail subjects and bodies to see if the user tries to issue a "unsubscribe" command as supported by other mailing list software. Users should be removed from the distribution list, if the subject line contains the string "unsubscribe" or if the first non-empty line in the body equals "unsubscribe"

This would greatly reduce the noise on many of the popular bug reports.

See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183685

[Joachim Kainz (joachim-kainz)]

Here is an example for one of the mail that create the noise:

From: FeiHrmAnn <email address hidden>
> Reply-to: Bug 183685 <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 183685] unsubcribe
> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:39:22 -0000
>
> unsubcribe

There are many, many more and some quite rude complaints from folks that think that the unsubscribe e-mails are annoying.

[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

Hi Barry, is this doable?

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

To have prevented that example, the command would need to detect misspellings of "unsubscribe" too. :-)

[Joachim Kainz (joachim-kainz)]

Barry, Diogo,

Sorry, but I clicked the wrong button and re-added this to "Launchpad Itself". I apologize for that. Can you please remove it again and just keep it with "Lauchpad Registry"?

Best regards,

Joachim

[Joachim Kainz (joachim-kainz)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269651 also contains several "unsubscribe".

[george (georgeroman)]

Hi,

It would be nice to not put you in the "subscribe" list by default.

George

[Martin Albisetti (beuno)]

Please don't set statuses to confirmed, this is a decision taken by the team.

[goto (gotolaunchpad)]

Okay, sorry for that (I did not know). But why *am* I actually able to do this? And does this rule apply for any other bugs, too?

[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

Setting the launchpad task as invalid since we're already tracking it in -registry

[gazel (joel-gazel)]

Gnome command: gnome-terminal fails , instead of opening Gnome, it justs opens a second blank page ...

that settles things from the very begining...

Thanks to help me

            joel.gazel@wanadoo;fr

[Diogo Matsubara (matsubara)]

Wrongly converted to a question

[Barry Warsaw (barry)]

We currently have no plans for enabling email commands for Launchpad mailing lists.

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

Launchpad does not use wishlist...it is not an importance. This is a feature request, and if blueprints did not suck, we would convert this bug report into a blueprint.