[CW] Mass Unsubscribes

[Scott Neader KA9FOX]

Hi David.  Fortunately, there was no hacking involved!  But there was a
Mailman problem that we recently fixed that was the cause of the barrage of
unsubscriptions (for those with current or past email delivery issues). Let
me explain:

We were recently notified that Mailman 'Digests' were not regularly being
sent out to those that subscribe to them.  This led us to realize that,
during a software update earlier this year, certain crons (automated
routines) for the Mailman software were not firing on schedule.  George
K5TR was able to fix the issue, however there was a large log jam of
Mailman events that began to be processed, that had been queued up to run
for some time.

I can only guess that Karl (the user below that was unsubscribed) had some
type of temporary issue with his email, perhaps weeks or maybe months ago,
so that Mailman was unable to deliver list mail to his address, for some
period of time, and caused him to get an  unsubscription added to the
queue.  Meanwhile, the issue with his email was probably resolved... but
that unsubscription was already in the queue and was recently processed
when the log jam was cleared.

I think the best plan is to either resubscribe those that you get notified
about an unsubscription.... Or, better, would be to send them each an email
and see if it bounces. If no bounce, it would be safe to resubscribe. If
bouncing, then, of course, no need to resubscribe.

I'm sorry for the problem.

Scott KA9FOX

On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 3:08 PM D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:

> A hacker got into qth.net and did a massive unsubscribe.
>
> I've notified Scott Neader, KA9FOX, owner of QSL/QTH net which hosts the
> email lists.
>
> Since it's happening to all lists, I'm hopeful Scott can roll things back
> to pre-hacker.
>
> 73
>
> David N1EA
>
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2024, 11:34 AM <mailman-bounces at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>
>> The attached message was received as a bounce, but either the bounce
>> format was not recognized, or no member addresses could be extracted
>> from it.  This mailing list has been configured to send all
>> unrecognized bounce messages to the list administrator(s).
>>
>> For more information see:
>> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/admin/cw/bounce
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Karl Zuk <karlzuk at hotmail.com>
>> To: "cw-bounces at mailman.qth.net" <cw-bounces at mailman.qth.net>
>> Cc:
>> Bcc:
>> Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 16:34:21 +0000
>> Subject: Re: You have been unsubscribed from the CW mailing list
>> I did not want to unsubscribe!  Karl Zuk  N2KZ
>>
>> On Dec 21, 2024, at 10:11 AM, cw-bounces at mailman.qth.net wrote:
>>
>> Thank you for belonging to the CW reflector, we wish you well and look
>> forward to the time when you return.
>>
>> 73
>>
>
- Scott
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