Sounds like a group intended for people with an axe to grind regarding Wikipedia. I would pay it no mind. You also might consider setting your Google Groups profile to not allow admins to add you to groups without your say so.
Sent from my Droid 4 Elias Friedman A.S., CCEMT-P אליהו מתתיהו בן צבי elipongo@gmail.com "יְהִי אוֹר" On Dec 2, 2014 11:26 AM, "lkcl ." luke.leighton@gmail.com wrote:
could someone please urgently investigate this individual.
a) who is this person b) what authority do they have c) what links do they have to the Wikipedia Foundation
and what the heck is going on: what is this about my email address being "added as a banned user"? i am a long-standing contributor to wikipedia including the strategic discussions from 2011.
l.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Russia Aviation russiaviation@gmail.com Date: Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:24 PM Subject: Re: please cease and desist from unsolicited subscriptions To: luke.leighton@gmail.com
Your email ID was added as a banned user of Wikipedia who was unjustly banned by fascist organisers.
On 12/2/14, luke.leighton@gmail.com luke.leighton@gmail.com wrote:
i have reported your group for net abuse due to an unsolicited
subscription.
you DO NOT have the right to subscribe people without their explicit authorisation to arbitrary random mailing lists or groups. wherever you
got
my email address from you will inform me IMMEDIATELY.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Russavia (Google Groups) gender-gap+noreply@googlegroups.com Date: Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:31 AM Subject: Google Groups: You've been added to Gender Gap To: luke.leighton@gmail.com
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