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.
Sent from my Droid 4 Elias Friedman A.S., CCEMT-P אליהו מתתיהו בן צבי [email protected] "יְהִי אוֹר" On Dec 2, 2014 11:26 AM, "lkcl ." <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:24 PM > Subject: Re: please cease and desist from unsolicited subscriptions > To: [email protected] > > > Your email ID was added as a banned user of Wikipedia who was unjustly > banned by fascist organisers. > > On 12/2/14, [email protected] <[email protected]> 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) <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:31 AM > Subject: Google Groups: You've been added to Gender Gap > To: [email protected] > > > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
