A problem with the maillist

[Damien Miller]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2026, Dennis Clarke via openssh-unix-dev wrote:

> 
>     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 :

Not sure what the error was, but it seemed you got it done in the
meantime. Sorry for the hassle.

For what it's worth, I usually find the web interface easier:

https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev

There you can do it via address/password as well as the email
unsubscribe flow.

Cheers,
Damien