Yes, it almost certainly is, and this isn't new to us. We dealt with this exact type of attack as recently as last month.
Austin On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <[email protected]> wrote: > This is probably related to a group that calls itself India Against > Corruption. > A similar tactic was employed by them on the India Community. > You may look up archives of Wikimediaindia-l and Commons-l. > You could also read up on > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/India_Against_Corruption_sock-meatfarm > > You may have already received a message indicating that you've been > added to the "Wikimedia-l" Google Group; if not, you likely will soon. > > In case it's not clear, this Google Group is in no way affiliated with > Wikimedia-l, the Wikimedia Foundation, me, or anybody you'd ever want > to be friends with. > > If you do find yourself subscribed, I strongly urge you not to engage > in any way. Report it to Google (not to me or the list) as an abusive > subscription using the link at the bottom of the message, and leave it > be. > > If you find yourself being impersonated or wrongly implicated in this > latest round of troublemaking, don't fret. Nobody will hold it against > you, and in fact you'll have everyone's sympathies. > > Austin > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
