Please take care when emailing replies to any inflammatory appearing emails to the list. You may be receiving emails with identical subject lines which are from a googlegroup rather than from a Wikimedia list which will appear to be in the same email thread. An example has been the discussion about the Arbcom election which even includes email bodies from the gendergap list in order to fool users.
Checking the details will show "@googlegroups.com" in the from field and in the footer or names such as "Russia Aviation", thought these are likely to keep changing.
Unfortunately despite multiple complaints about this group hijacking users from a Wikimedia list by maliciously harvesting email addresses, Google has yet to take any visible action.
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