Hi Lodewijk, The optout didn't work for me too.
Did you try unsubscribing by using the other option provided below optout in the mails. That is send a blank mail to the unsubscribe address and this should work. It worked for me though. Best, - Enock twitter: @Enock4seth enockseth.blogspot.com | [[User:Enock4seth]] On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Lodewijk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dan, > > unfortunately several people use multiple email addresses, and this optout > doesn't work properly if that is the case - because when you go to that > link, google insists that you want to unsubscribe with your gmail address > (which might not be the one you have been subscribed with). > > Right now, I'm just marking all emails as spam - hoping that this won't > affect the very similarly layouted real wikimedia-l messages. > > Lodewijk > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If people are being resubscribed after having unsubscribed, apparently > > changing your settings here will stop that from happening: > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!optout > > > > I was subscribed by them and was kind of amused by the disaster and level > > of paranoia on these lists for a while, so I didn't bother unsubscribing. > > Now that someone is just copy-pasting articles about Wikipedia that are > > years old to one of the newer lists, it's sufficiently boring for me to > > unsubscribe. > > > > Dan > > > > On 9 January 2015 at 09:35, Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Karthik Nadar <[email protected] > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > I think it will be better if most of us can "Report the Group". > > > > > > > > > Yes, please do this. We're also talking with Google about trying to > > resolve > > > the issue, but my understanding is that reporting that you've been > > > fraudulently subscribed will help move that conversation along. > > > > > > [Same applies to the fake gender-gap list.] > > > > > > Thanks- > > > Luis > > > > > > -- > > > Luis Villa > > > Deputy General Counsel > > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > 415.839.6885 ext. 6810 > > > > > > *This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you have > > > received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the > > > mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal/ethical > > > reasons I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, > > community > > > members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For > > more > > > on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer > > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>.* > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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> > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Dan Garry > > Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps > > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > > 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>
