Re: Mailman privacy alert

[Ross Golder <ross golder org>]

tdendup dit gov bt wrote:
> Hi,
> My mail server was down and that caused a lot of mails to me from the
> gnome-i18n to bounce back. I received a mail from gnome-i18n saying that my
> account has been disabled and i got a link to reactivate it. When i tried
> to reactivate my account to the list, I got an error saying that the
> activation string is invalid. I then tried to re-register to gnome-i18n
> list but i got the following mail:

I couldn't see your address subscribed to the list, so I subscribed it. 
You should have received a mail with more information.

--
Ross

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> An attempt was made to subscribe your address to the mailing list
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>
> Note that the list membership is not public, so it is possible that a bad
> person was trying to probe the list for its membership.  This would be a
> privacy violation if we let them do this, but we didn't.
>
> If you submitted the subscription request and forgot that you were already
> subscribed to the list, then you can ignore this message.  If you suspect
> that
> an attempt is being made to covertly discover whether you are a member of
> this
> list, and you are worried about your privacy, then feel free to send a
> message
> to the list administrator at gnome-i18n-owner gnome org 
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>
> Please could someone reactive my account on the list??
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>
> Tenzin Dendup
>  Dzongkha Localization Team
> Bhutan
>
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