I reported the group for spamming. Adding me and others without our consent
and sending unsolicited emails must be stopped somehow.

Regards,
Thyge

2014-12-05 22:12 GMT+01:00 Austin Hair <adh...@gmail.com>:

> For the record, about an hour ago I permanently banned Site Admin,
> going so far as to create regex filters for his content. And no,
> Russavia, I didn't think it was you.
>
> Unfortunately, I can't do anything about the individual
> subscriptions—yes, I got one too.
>
> Austin
>
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Russavia <russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > Below is an email I've just received inviting me to join the Gender Gap
> > mailing list. It's sent from russiaviat...@gmail.com and has been
> passing
> > off as me.
> >
> > I mentioned on the Gender Gap mailing list the other day that this was
> not
> > me, but now it would appear that email addresses on this mailing list are
> > being scraped.
> >
> > If you receive an email purporting to be from myself and it's not from
> this
> > email addy (and with an IINET IP), you can be assured it is not myself.
> If
> > I wanted to troll you all, you all know that I have more elaborate ways
> of
> > doing this if I really wanted to do that. :)
> >
> > It could appear from the message they sent it is our Indian friend who is
> > doing this; but of course it could be someone joe jobbing them too. Who
> > knows, who cares, it's not me all the same.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Russavia
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Russavia (Google Groups) <gender-gap+nore...@googlegroups.com>
> > Date: Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 1:08 AM
> > Subject: Google Groups: You've been added to Gender Gap
> > To: russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com
> >
> >
> >     "Gender-Gap International" spreading Transparency and WikiLove
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > I regret that XYZ has thought it necessary to bring his/her personal
> > grievance to the Wikimedia-l mailing list now that s/he is unable to make
> > such comments on the Wikimedia-XYZ list or the WM-XYZ website. I would
> hope
> > that the moderators will consider whether providing a platform for this
> > type of attack is conducive to the health of the Wikimedia movement.
> > ___________
> > Michael Maggs
> > Chair, Wikimedia UK
> >
> > 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
> > <http://groups.google.com/d/forum/gender-gap?hl=en>
> >  [image: Visit Google Groups] <https://groups.google.com/?hl=en>
> >
> > Start your own group <http://groups.google.com/d/creategroup?hl=en>,
> > unsubscribe
> > from this group
> > <
> http://groups.google.com/d/forum/gender-gap/unsubscribe/1KzA4xQAAAAp3EJgqb7qgoVQ1Ojd6d1ig1serHmoKtUOx11h3NXzJA?hl=en
> >,
> > or stop invitations like this
> > <http://groups.google.com/d/optout?hl=en>. or report
> > spam
> > <
> http://groups.google.com/d/abuse/YQAAAEwZXucMAAAAMHY_I2wAAADPrIBRAUs70uGdiRxE_60cAW3p5LQ?hl=en
> >.
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