Messages in this thread | | | From | Slade Watkins <> | Date | Mon, 25 Oct 2021 13:04:34 -0400 | Subject | Re: Unsubscription Incident |
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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
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