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Subject: Re: Unsubscription Incident
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On 10/26/21 5:02 PM, Slade Watkins wrote:
> Hi,
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 4:10 PM Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 10:53:28AM -0500, Lijun Pan 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.
>>>
>>
>> Same here.
>>
>> Fortunately I just switched to lei:
>> https://josefbacik.github.io/kernel/2021/10/18/lei-and-b4.html
>> so I can unsubscribe all kernel mailing lists now.
> 
> Not a bad workaround! I may consider trying this out. Thanks for
> sending this along.
> 
> I'd still love to figure out why the whole "randomly unsubscribing
> people who want to be subscribed" thing is happening in the first
> place, though.

Then you should try <postmaster@vger.kernel.org> for assistance.

-- 
~Randy