Risker: Not in all cases IIRC, also generally the UX of it is suboptimal
but it's getting better. See this upstream ticket:
https://gitlab.com/mailman/postorius/-/issues/545


Am Sa., 21. Jan. 2023 um 05:41 Uhr schrieb Risker <risker...@gmail.com>:

> I can tell you that there *is* a confirmation requirement before mass
> unsubscribing everyone, because I almost did it tonight and got a warning
> message.
>
> Risker/Anne
>
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 at 23:37, Amir Sarabadani <ladsgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> FWIW, this is not the first time an admin mistakenly has done this. It is
>> an issue in the interface that doesn't even ask for confirmation before
>> mass unsubscribing everyone.
>>
>> There was a task for it but I can't find it, if anyone remembers please
>> send it to me.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Am Sa., 21. Jan. 2023 um 05:03 Uhr schrieb Kunal Mehta <
>> lego...@debian.org>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have reached out to the wikimania-l list admins privately with what I
>>> found by investigating the server logs[1], it appears that the
>>> "unsubscribe all" interface was accidentally used and then people were
>>> silently resubscribed (so it appeared they weren't unsubscribed in the
>>> first place).
>>>
>>> In general, if some data loss happens please please PLEASE reach out to
>>> the Mailman admins / SRE team as soon as possible, we have much better
>>> tools like database backups to restore things exactly to the way they
>>> were. Accidents happen, we understand, it's much easier for us to
>>> intervene and reset things right after they occur rather than trying to
>>> piece things together later.
>>>
>>> [1] Those with Phabricator security access can review
>>> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327572>.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> -- Kunal / Legoktm
>>>
>>> On 1/18/23 06:07, Deryck Chan wrote:
>>> > Hi listadmins,
>>> >
>>> > Many subscribers to wikimania-l received a "You have been unsubscribed
>>> > from the Wikimania-l mailing list" email today, despite the fact that
>>> we
>>> > are certainly still subscribed (and are discussing these false
>>> messages
>>> > on-list).
>>> >
>>> > Has this happened with any other lists?
>>> >
>>> > --Deryck
>>> > wikimania-l listadmin, [[User:Deryck Chan]]
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Amir (he/him)
>>
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