Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Google Groups: You've been added to Gender Gap

Hi all Below is an email I've just received inviting me to join the Gender Gap mailing list. It's sent from russiaviation(a)gmail.com and has been passing off as me. I mentioned on the Gender Gap mailing list the other day that this was not me, but now it would appear that email addresses on this mailing list are being scraped. If you receive an email purporting to be from myself and it's not from this email addy (and with an IINET IP), you can be assured it is not myself. If I wanted to troll you all, you all know that I have more elaborate ways of doing this if I really wanted to do that. :) It could appear from the message they sent it is our Indian friend who is doing this; but of course it could be someone joe jobbing them too. Who knows, who cares, it's not me all the same. Cheers Russavia ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Russavia (Google Groups) &lt;gender-gap+noreply(a)googlegroups.com&gt; Date: Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 1:08 AM Subject: Google Groups: You've been added to Gender Gap To: russavia.wikipedia(a)gmail.com "Gender-Gap International" spreading Transparency and WikiLove -------------------------------------------------------------- I regret that XYZ has thought it necessary to bring his/her personal grievance to the Wikimedia-l mailing list now that s/he is unable to make such comments on the Wikimedia-XYZ list or the WM-XYZ website. I would hope that the moderators will consider whether providing a platform for this type of attack is conducive to the health of the Wikimedia movement. ___________ Michael Maggs Chair, Wikimedia UK About this group: Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase the participation of women within Wikimedia projects. We want to encourage you to engage with others in this effort. The owner of the group has set your subscription type as "Email", meaning that you'll receive a copy of every message posted to the group as they are posted. Visit This Group <http://groups.google.com/d/forum/gender-gap?hl=en> [image: Visit Google Groups] <https://groups.google.com/?hl=en> Start your own group <http://groups.google.com/d/creategroup?hl=en>, unsubscribe from this group <http://groups.google.com/d/forum/gender-gap/unsubscribe/1KzA4xQAAAAp3EJgqb7qgoVQ1Ojd6d1ig1serHmoKtUOx11h3NXzJA?hl=en>, or stop invitations like this <http://groups.google.com/d/optout?hl=en>. or report spam <http://groups.google.com/d/abuse/YQAAAEwZXucMAAAAMHY_I2wAAADPrIBRAUs70uGdiRxE_60cAW3p5LQ?hl=en>. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>