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From: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com>
To: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@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: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 13:43:18 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YXY15jCBCAgB88uT@d3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+h21hqrX32qBmmdcNiNkp6_QvzsX61msyJ5_g+-FFJazxLgDw@mail.gmail.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-25  4:43 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 [this message]
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
2021-10-27 23:07       ` Richard Cochran

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