From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Slade Watkins <slade@sladewatkins.com>,
Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Lijun Pan <lijunp213@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Networking <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Unsubscription Incident
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 12:29:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1d5ccba0-d607-aabc-6bd1-0e7c754c8379@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+pv=HPK+7JVM2d=C2B6iBY+joW7T9RWrPGDd-VXm09yaWsQYg@mail.gmail.com>
On 10/26/21 5:02 PM, Slade Watkins wrote:
> Hi,
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 4:10 PM Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> 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@vger.kernel.org> for assistance.
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-27 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-22 15:53 Unsubscription Incident Lijun Pan
2021-10-22 15:54 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-10-25 4:43 ` Benjamin Poirier
2021-10-25 17:04 ` Slade Watkins
2021-10-25 18:08 ` Metztli Information Technology
2021-10-25 19:47 ` Slade Watkins
2021-10-25 18:34 ` Shannon Nelson
2021-10-25 19:44 ` Slade Watkins
2022-02-20 23:54 ` Metztli Information Technology
2022-02-23 3:06 ` Slade Watkins
2021-10-27 19:34 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-10-27 19:40 ` Shannon Nelson
2021-10-27 20:42 ` John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2021-10-28 0:27 ` Slade Watkins
2021-10-28 4:05 ` John 'Warthog9' Hawley
2021-10-25 19:32 ` Cong Wang
2021-10-27 0:02 ` Slade Watkins
2021-10-27 19:29 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2021-10-27 23:07 ` Richard Cochran
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