FWIW MZ, I believe mailman allows people to be added without confirmation
too! It's useful for some things, but not for lists like ours.
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On 9 January 2015 at 14:02, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
Austin Hair wrote:
You may have already received a message indicating
that you've been
added to the "Wikimedia-l" Google Group; if not, you likely will soon.
I've had difficulty using the Web unsubscribe form, so I've been
unsubscribing from this repeated stupidity exclusively via e-mail, which
seems to work much better.
For example, you can e-mail wikimedia-l+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com to
begin the process. You'll receive a confirmation e-mail, you reply to the
confirmation e-mail, and then you're successfully unsubscribed.
I already view Google pretty skeptically, but allowing its system to be
abused like this seems downright negligent. Subscribing to a mailing list
should, of course, require confirmation. And lists ("Google Groups") that
are being used only to personate and troll should be disabled immediately.
MZMcBride
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