lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2021]   [Oct]   [25]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
Date
SubjectRe: Unsubscription Incident
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

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2021-10-25 19:09    [W:2.395 / U:0.016 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site