Apache mailing list moderation tip
November 27th, 2005 by HenI don’t know if this is common knowledge, but it was a discovery for me so I figured I’d share. People often mail the mailing list owner to say they can’t unsubscribe from the ASF mailing lists. In that situation I mail the ‘-list’ command to see if I can see their address, or variant of their address and then see what the problem is. ie) an email to general-list@jakarta.apache.org.
Turns out that the digest works utterly separately. If they are getting a digest, you need to mail general-digest-list@jakarta.apache.org to find them, and they need to mail general-digest-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org to unsubscribe. I’m sure it’s blatantly stated in the docs, it just didn’t sink in.