Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: please cease and desist from unsolicited subscriptions

2014-12-02 Thread Elias Friedman
Sounds like a group intended for people with an axe to grind regarding
Wikipedia. I would pay it no mind. You also might consider setting your
Google Groups profile to not allow admins to add you to groups without your
say so.

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On Dec 2, 2014 11:26 AM, lkcl . luke.leigh...@gmail.com wrote:

 could someone please urgently investigate this individual.

 a) who is this person
 b) what authority do they have
 c) what links do they have to the Wikipedia Foundation

 and what the heck is going on: what is this about my email address
 being added as a banned user?  i am a long-standing contributor to
 wikipedia including the strategic discussions from 2011.

 l.

 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Russia Aviation russiaviat...@gmail.com
 Date: Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:24 PM
 Subject: Re: please cease and desist from unsolicited subscriptions
 To: luke.leigh...@gmail.com


 Your email ID was added as a banned user of Wikipedia who was unjustly
 banned by fascist organisers.

 On 12/2/14, luke.leigh...@gmail.com luke.leigh...@gmail.com wrote:
  i have reported your group for net abuse due to an unsolicited
 subscription.
   you DO NOT have the right to subscribe people without their explicit
  authorisation to arbitrary random mailing lists or groups.  wherever you
 got
  my email address from you will inform me IMMEDIATELY.
 


 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Russavia (Google Groups) gender-gap+nore...@googlegroups.com
 Date: Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:31 AM
 Subject: Google Groups: You've been added to Gender Gap
 To: luke.leigh...@gmail.com



 Gendergap International : Addressing gender equity and exploring ways
 to increase the participation of women within international Wikimedia
 projects.


 About this group:

 Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase the
 participation of women within Wikimedia projects. We want to encourage
 you to engage with others in this effort.


 The owner of the group has set your subscription type as Email,
 meaning that you'll receive a copy of every message posted to the
 group as they are posted.

 Visit This Group

 Start your own group, unsubscribe from this group, or stop invitations
 like this. or report spam.

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: please cease and desist from unsolicited subscriptions

2014-12-02 Thread geni
On 2 December 2014 at 16:25, lkcl . luke.leigh...@gmail.com wrote:

 could someone please urgently investigate this individual.

 a) who is this person
 b) what authority do they have
 c) what links do they have to the Wikipedia Foundation



My guess is it is someone impersonating user:Russavia (banned user on
English Wikipedia so a bit outside our jurisdiction anyway) to try and
cause trouble. Certainly that isn't the email address they generally use.

Details of the actual gendergap mailing list can be found at:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap

The addresses of the admins again do not match those shown in the exchange

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geni
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