Re: Unsubscription Incident

[Slade Watkins]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 12:43 AM Benjamin Poirier
<benjamin.poirier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2021-10-22 18:54 +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 at 18:53, Lijun Pan <lijunp213@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > From Oct 11, I did not receive any emails from both linux-kernel and
> > > netdev mailing list. Did anyone encounter the same issue? I subscribed
> > > again and I can receive incoming emails now. However, I figured out
> > > that anyone can unsubscribe your email without authentication. Maybe
> > > it is just a one-time issue that someone accidentally unsubscribed my
> > > email. But I would recommend that our admin can add one more
> > > authentication step before unsubscription to make the process more
> > > secure.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Lijun
> >
> > Yes, the exact same thing happened to me. I got unsubscribed from all
> > vger mailing lists.
>
> It happened to a bunch of people on gmail:
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/1fd8d0ac-ba8a-4836-59ab-0ed3b0321775@xxxxxxxxxxxx/t/#u

I can at least confirm that this didn't happen to me on my hosted
Gmail through Google Workspace. Could be wrong, but it seems isolated
to normal @gmail.com accounts.

Best,
             -slade