[UCIMC-Tech] Mailman mass unsubscribe

[Josh King]

Hey Jay,

Unfortunately I'm still working on getting new logging/monitoring stuff
set up, and didn't finish this weekend. I'll be working on that during
my free time throughout the week, for as long as that takes. However, I
did track down most of the addresses you provided to me. They look like
legitimate bounce processing, with most of them being either
illinois.edu addresses for people who left the University, or gmail
accounts where gmail claims that they are no longer valid users. So my
current working theory is that the unsubscriptions are legitimate
Mailman bounce processing, which possibly wasn't being processed
correctly before the list functionality was temporarily migrated to a
new server. It should be possible to turn off bounce processing on your
list if that is not a desired feature; I can provide instructions.
Otherwise, if there are addresses in the list that are being
unsubscribed that you know are legitimate, I can investigate further in
case U of I, Gmail or others are providing illegit responses (which
wouldn't be entirely outside the realm of possibility in the arcane
world of email processing).

On 04/20/2012 09:52 AM, Josh King wrote:
> Hi Jay,
> 
> I've been meaning to clean up the logging. There's now a central log server for all system logs, but it currently isn't very well organized. If you can forward me the list of addresses off-list, I can track that down for you this afternoon, and I'll clean up the logging server and send out access information for it this weekend. Sound good?
> 
> Jay Schubert <jay.schubert at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Tech,
>>
>> Anyone have any advice about what I can check in Mailman to understand
>> what's happening when I get notification that 29 or 16 people at a time
>> have been unsubscribed from our general mail list (bookstoprisoners)? 
>> The
>> only info the email I receive has is "[address] has been unsubscribed"
>> (over and over for different addresses x 30 lines) and I've recently
>> gotten
>> a few of them at a surprising rate (I'm used to seeing a few here and
>> there
>> but to see them come in such large batches is alarming).
>>
>> Are there logs that give more info about the reason / action that
>> triggered
>> the unsubscribes?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jay
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-- 
Josh King

"I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal,
but because there is no such thing as a final goal." -Rudolf Rocker

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