I received a junk email that was directed to wikimediaro-l-owner@lists.wikimedia.org. To the best of my knowledge, I'm not a list owner or list memember for Wikimediaro-l. Checking https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaro-l suggests that there are no list owners.
There appear to be at least two mysteries. Why are there apparently no list owners, and why would email sent to wikimediaro-l-owner@lists.wikimedia.org be sent to me?
Boldly adding James Alexander and Daniel Zahn as they both have access to the Mailman interface and can resolve this.
I don't see a list owner, correct. The former owners could have removed themselves. Would you know who should be added as new list owner?
There is nothing set for admin or moderator, i don't know why that is or why you received the emal. But if you have a suggestion who should be owner or how to find one, let me know and i can set it. Or we could close the list. Maybe could somebody mail the list itself to find a new admin?
My instinct at this time would be to close the list, as it appears to have been abandoned. The last post was from 2014. The list can be re-activated if there is interest.
@Pine thank you, ok. I disabled the list and it can be re-enabled.
per https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailman#Disable_or_re-enable_a_mailing_list
[fermium:~] $ sudo /usr/local/sbin/disable_list wikimediaro-l wikimediaro-l disabled. Archives should be available at current location, all mail should be moderated and the list should not be on the listinfo page.
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2017-03-20T19:45:34Z] <mutante> lists: disabled wikimediaro-l due to inactivity (disabling lists is easy nowadays and also revertable): fermium: sudo /usr/local/sbin/disable_list <list name> | (T146563)
for the curious, this is what "disable_list" actually means in more detail:
9 function disable_list {
10 echo "advertised=0" | config_list -i /dev/stdin $list
11 echo "emergency=1" | config_list -i /dev/stdin $list
12 echo "member_moderation_action=2" | config_list -i /dev/stdin $list
13 echo "generic_nonmember_action=2" | config_list -i /dev/stdin $list
14 echo "ban_list=['^.*@.*']" | config_list -i /dev/stdin $list
15 if find /var/lib/mailman/data/ | grep heldmsg-$list; then
16 rm /var/lib/mailman/data/heldmsg-$list-*.pck
17 fi
18 }