[CW] Mass Unsubscribes

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

I have hundreds of unsubscriptions, they all say they never asked for
unsubscribe.

Isn't there a way to revert to what we had yesterday?

Best regards,

David Ring N1EA

On Sat, Dec 21, 2024, 10:30 PM Scott Neader KA9FOX <ka9fox at qsl.net> wrote:

> 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
> __
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S21. Please excuse brevity and typos.
>
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