Re: Unsubscription Incident

[Randy Dunlap]

On 10/26/21 5:02 PM, Slade Watkins wrote:
> Hi,
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 4:10 PM Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 10:53:28AM -0500, Lijun Pan 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.
> >
> > Same here.
> >
> > Fortunately I just switched to lei:
> > https://josefbacik.github.io/kernel/2021/10/18/lei-and-b4.html
> > so I can unsubscribe all kernel mailing lists now.
>
> Not a bad workaround! I may consider trying this out. Thanks for
> sending this along.
>
> I'd still love to figure out why the whole "randomly unsubscribing
> people who want to be subscribed" thing is happening in the first
> place, though.

Then you should try <postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> for assistance.

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~Randy