On Fri, May 13, 2022, 4:29 PM Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> wrote:
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 02:39:58PM -0400, Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many wrote:
Hi,
Both my email addresses were unsubscribed from the mailing list.
Karl,
It wasn't me, and I didn't get a notification about it.
We've seen on the list that anyone can send a forged email to unsubscribe, but then a confirmation is required to actually unsubscribe.
Your email, gmkarl@gmail.com, is still subscribed to the cypherpunks list. I just checked.
I had to go through the subscription process to do this for both gmkarl@gmail.com and 0xloem@gmail.com . I was getting bounces, earlier, in response to emails from both email addresses.
The unsub shenanigans are childish and annoying. I taught my students how to forge an email message in 1998, and of course forged emails are a big part of how spam gets around these days. I'm not impressed by people who are forging unsub emails to the list management software.
I don't know whether it was on my end, or Greg's. Nor do I know whether it has happened to other people.
When an address is unsubscribed, they get a goodbye email from the list software. Did that happen?
I'm not seeing this. However, when I looked just now, my client misbehaved, mutating folders on its own. It's been doing that rarely for years, though. It is possible that somebody used access to my email account to unsubscribe me, and then covered their tracks. But it's concerning that this happens at the same time that others are getting unsubscription notices.
~ Greg