Firstly I would like to say that I am completely aware that there has already been a couple of suggestions created for this. Due to the fact that there has been no update on whether it's going to be added anytime soon, I wanted to send in an additional one to hopefully grab someone's attention.

Someone has kindly submitted pull requests already for this feature (Bukkit PR 31 and CraftBukkit PR 69) however for some reason it has not been merged.