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From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 22 Oct 2021 18:54:38 +0300
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Subject: Re: Unsubscription Incident
To:     Lijun Pan <lijunp213@gmail.com>
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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.