Re: Unsubscription Incident

From: Shannon Nelson
Date: Mon Oct 25 2021 - 14:34:36 EST


On 10/25/21 10:04 AM, Slade Watkins wrote:
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

Alternatively, I can confirm that my pensando.io address through gmail was affected until I re-subscribed.
sln