Messages in this thread | | | From | Slade Watkins <> | Date | Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:44:03 -0400 | Subject | Re: Unsubscription Incident |
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On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 2:34 PM Shannon Nelson <snelson@pensando.io> wrote: > > On 10/25/21 10:04 AM, Slade Watkins wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 12:43 AM Benjamin Poirier > > <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 2021-10-22 18:54 +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote: > >>> On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 at 18:53, Lijun Pan <lijunp213@gmail.com> 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@mojatatu.com/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.
Hm. Must be a hit or miss thing, then.
> sln > > >
-slade
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