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[sympa-users] list admin's getting spammed with subscriber delete notifications

From: Stephen Jarjoura <address@concealed>
To: address@concealed
Subject: [sympa-users] list admin's getting spammed with subscriber delete notifications
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 14:12:05 -0400

Hello, All;

We've had this issue since the last Sympa upgrade (6.2.54), where all of the "listmaster" accounts get spammed with many (sometimes hundreds) of messages like this.

"FYI: del list listname from address@concealed"

I found out that lists with no owners send notifications to Sympa admins, so that's what we thought was happening. But, it's not clear how someone can remove the last owner, or have the last owner removed via some other method. It happened twice more today and I found that in both cases a list owner had first deleted all subscribers then closed their list.

For the record, we do not get subscriber delete messages normally. But, these mass notification events happen once or twice a month.

Does anyone know what's triggering these mass notifications?

Is there any way to stop them?

Thanks!

Stephen A. Jarjoura

Boston College

[sympa-users] list admin's getting spammed with subscriber delete notifications, Stephen Jarjoura, 08/23/2021

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