A problem with the maillist

[Dennis Clarke]

     Just doing some cleanup of the massive piles of stuff that flow
into my email over the years. I was trying to unsubscribe given that
I have slipped into a certain age wherein I walk slow and think even
more slowly. Not sure what value I could provide other than the rare
message which says "My Sun SPARCStation 20 still runs and libssh2
compiles and tests clean!" Wonderful. So too does OpenSSH but there is
no trivial way to get a prng daemon in place. May as well give up.

     So the procedure to unsubscribe is normally :

         1) send a message to a particular address that is similar
            to the maillist. NOT the same address. Similar.

         2) await a reply which states "are you sure?" and it also
            provides a confirmation code string. Usually a mess of hex.

         3) the message contents from (2) will also provide some
            instructions that say where to email the confirmation code

         4) do the stuff instructed in (2) with the confirmation code
            in the message as detailed in (3)

         5) await a message which states how there is great sadness in
            the lands over such a loss and the servers themselves will
            shed tears for X time where X < 100ms.

     Most of that works right up until (5). What I really get as a reply
is something with excellent mail headers and then some confusion :

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Received: from haru.mindrot.org (haru.mindrot.org [130.102.96.5])
	by mailhub.eait.uq.edu.au (8.15.1/8.15.1) with ESMTP id 60DK4r44027595
	for <dclarke at blastwave.org>; Wed, 14 Jan 2026 06:04:53 +1000 (AEST)
Subject: The results of your email commands
From: openssh-unix-dev-owner at mindrot.org
To: dclarke at blastwave.org
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Message-ID: <mailman.2.1768334692.54732.openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 07:04:52 +1100
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X-BeenThere: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
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List-Id: Development of portable OpenSSH <openssh-unix-dev.mindrot.org>
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Sender: "openssh-unix-dev"
  <openssh-unix-dev-bounces+dclarke=blastwave.org at mindrot.org>
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The results of your email command are provided below. Attached is your
original message.

- Results:
     Usage:

     confirm <confirmation-string>
         Confirm an action.  The confirmation-string is required and 
should be
         supplied by a mailback confirmation notice.


- Unprocessed:
     confirm 9a5d3cc36cf0d21e6f6a2496dae432ab96313353

- Done.


----------------------- end of confusion --------------------------

So there 2026 the mail server is the Hotel California and you can
stab it with steely knives but you just cant kill the beast.(1)


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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken

(1) with apologies to Don Henley etc