[WikiEN-l] someone after non-active admin accounts

[Abigail Brady]

The headers indicate it was sent through the 'email this user feature': my
mailhost received it directly from wikimedia.org.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&user=Wp_freedom_fighter

indicates the account was created May 10, although it doesn't seem to have
done anything after creation.

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Jay Litwyn <brewhaha at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
> wrote:

> Abigail Brady carbon-copied an e-mail purportedly from
> user:Wp_freedom_fighter (if you follow the trailing indications of source,
> which were probably written manually) and that user does not seem to
> egzist,
> nor do they seem to hav ever egzisted. All I get on google is games and Sri
> Lankan war heroes.
> <a
> href="
> http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?s=6db52210dc1d573db450917c2f128df3&showtopic=24308&pid=172868&st=0&#entry172868
> ">
> Unless you count this -CC- to someone else</a>. In other words, this user
> has nothing to lose but a gmail account, or so they think. googlemail
> tracks
> ISPs. An ISP might even be in the received headers. It is best that the
> complaint come from her and in her own words.
> _______
> <a href="http://ecn.ab.ca/~brewhaha/finance/Manual_Spam_Control.htm<http://ecn.ab.ca/%7Ebrewhaha/finance/Manual_Spam_Control.htm>
> ">Some
> clues about how you figure such things out are here.</a> A whois search on
> X-Originating-IP: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX might let her bypass googlemail, which is
> understandably bottle-necked.
>
>
>
>
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