Re: [oc] Strange mailing list behaviour

["Damjan Lampret" <lampret@opencores.org>]

Hi John,

I also received notification about your unsubscribe request on Aug 15th. In
fact I was quite surprised but figured that you might have gone to change
your email address or something. Message below looks pretty standard (I get
them several a day as people subscribe or unsubscribe). So now the only
question is who and how sent your unsubscribe request to majordomo - one
possibility is that software for automatic removal of dead emails has a bug
and it removed you accidently. Miha, can you please check if this is the
case.
I doubt that anyone hijacked your email in order to send unsubscribe request
and later confirmation (obviusly the hard part is to send confirmation).

regards,
Damjan

Message that I received from majordomo on aug 15th:
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----- Original Message -----
From: John William Dalton <jdalton@asiaonline.net.au>
To: <cores@opencores.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 6:47 AM
Subject: [oc] Strange mailing list behaviour


>
> Last Wednesday, I received the following
> message from majordome@opencores.org
>
> # >>>> unsubscribe cores jdalton@asiaonline.net.au
> # Succeeded.
>
> The message arrived at 15 Aug 2001 08:02:33 GMT
>
> This seemed quite strange, as I was not
> aware of sending an unsubscribe request
> I waited for a while, and I was indeed
> unsubscribed, as e-mails from cores stopped.
>
> Has anyone else had a similar thing happen
> to them?
>
> Some explanations I can think of (in order
> of decreasing probability) are:
>
> 1) The unsubscription was somehow
> triggered by the last message I sent
> to cores:
> # Slashdot is reporting that
> # AMD are discontinuing some
> # of their embedded processors
> # (486, 586, K6).
> #
> # Perhaps a chance for an opencore
> # to fill a niche?
>
> sent at Wed, 15 Aug 2001 00:38:39 local
> time (14 Aug 2001 014:38:39 GMT)
>
> 2) I have gone senile, and forgotten
> about an unsubscribe request I sent.
> (The men in white coats are coming now.)
>
> 3) There is a bug in majordomo, which caused
> an unsubscribe.
>
> 4) There has been a breach of security, and
> someone is sending unauthorised majordomo
> commands.
>
>
> >From my end, I have resubscribed, but I figured
> I should make people aware of the possibility
> of misconfiguration, bugs or security breaches.
> (I'm sure I didn't request to be unsubscribed!)
>
> Regards
> John
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