<div dir="ltr"><div>I've been informed by Etienne (on cc) that he made a request via the manual "subscribe" e-mail address around a week ago now and has gotten no response. I'm not sure if there are further steps he should be taking?</div><div><br></div><div>-- HT<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 4:39 PM Tanya Lattner via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span id="gmail-m_2963359715289647503docs-internal-guid-c1ceff7b-7fff-cb40-e1c0-692f6dc452f3"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All,</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We need to immediately disable subscription capabilities to all LLVM Mailman lists.</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The current Mailman server is being abused by subscribing valid email addresses to our lists and because the list requires confirmation, the email address gets “spam”. An email address is subscribed upwards of 100 times in a short period of time in many cases. AWS has threatened to turn off our instance unless we take immediate action. Given the time frame of the situation (24 hours to resolve), we have no choice but to disable all new subscription capabilities as we can not distinguish between a real subscription attempt versus the abuse. </span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Those currently subscribed should see no changes or impact to their workflow. </span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I am sure this raises a lot of questions for the LLVM community and we are working hard and as quickly as possible on a permanent solution to this situation.</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thanks,</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tanya Lattner</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">LLVM Foundation</span></div></span><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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