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@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@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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