Dear Colleagues A few days ago I started received a number of emails from "[Wikimedia-l]", which I found odd, as I had set my delivery satus to "no mail".
It turns out that the emails are not coming from "[email protected]", but from "wikimedia-l <[email protected]>". However, the display name of the list is simply Wikimedia-l, identical to the name of this list. I find it perturbing that people could be duped into participating in discussions on a forum other then what they thought was the case. This borders on phishing, scamming, posing, pretending to be someone else to get benefit out of it. In fact, in a number of jurisdictions it is taken as a seriuos crime. Said list was created by a user by the name of Toby Dollmann and he or she has been adding people willy-nilly, regardless of whether they are involved with Wikipedia/ Wikimedia or not and completely without thei knowing about it, based on some event atended by "a number of people", who expressed desire for a list, an idea supported by three or four of those people. Any idea as to what could be done about this? Best regards, Rui -- _________________________ Rui Correia Advocacy, Human Rights, Media and Language Work Consultant Bridge to Angola - Angola Liaison Consultant Mobile Number in South Africa +27 74 425 4186 Número de Telemóvel na África do Sul +27 74 425 4186 _______________ _______________________________________________ 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>
