Hi Dan,
unfortunately several people use multiple email addresses, and this optout doesn't work properly if that is the case - because when you go to that link, google insists that you want to unsubscribe with your gmail address (which might not be the one you have been subscribed with).
Right now, I'm just marking all emails as spam - hoping that this won't affect the very similarly layouted real wikimedia-l messages.
Lodewijk
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
If people are being resubscribed after having unsubscribed, apparently changing your settings here will stop that from happening: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!optout
I was subscribed by them and was kind of amused by the disaster and level of paranoia on these lists for a while, so I didn't bother unsubscribing. Now that someone is just copy-pasting articles about Wikipedia that are years old to one of the newer lists, it's sufficiently boring for me to unsubscribe.
Dan
On 9 January 2015 at 09:35, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Karthik Nadar karthikndr@wikimedia.in wrote:
I think it will be better if most of us can "Report the Group".
Yes, please do this. We're also talking with Google about trying to
resolve
the issue, but my understanding is that reporting that you've been fraudulently subscribed will help move that conversation along.
[Same applies to the fake gender-gap list.]
Thanks- Luis
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