Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Rep. Bill Jones Thinks Spam is "Innovative"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the when-is-election-year? dept.

GMontag writes "Wired is running this story:Candidate: Spam in Every Pot about candidate-for-governor Bill Jones' spam campaigning. The most telling quote: "Jones spokesman Darrel Ng said the e-mail wasn't spam, commonly defined as unsolicited commercial e-mail. Ng instead classified Jones' non-commercial mass-mailing as an "innovative way to use the Internet.'" Another interesting item: "An examination of the e-mail sent out by the Jones campaign revealed forged headers. The e-mail, purportedly sent from an MSN.com address, was actually routed through the server of an elementary school in Chonnam, Korea.""

6 of 393 comments (clear)

  1. Fast Forward to October by Tyler+Eaves · · Score: 5, Funny

    In a new state record, Candiate Bill Jones received only 1 vote. Many blame his poor showing on the fact the he hired his campaign spokesperson because he promised to "Get Vote$$ fa$$t"

    --
    TODO: Something witty here...
  2. SPAM! by PopeAlien · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shouldn't this be under the category "Its funny, laugh"?

    But many who received Jones' e-mail are not California residents. Some aren't even U.S. citizens. Evidently, the address harvester used by Jones' vendor assumed that all e-mail addresses containing ".ca," a suffix that identifies a Canadian domain, belong to California residents.

    Well, clearly if he could get the much coveted Canadian vote he'd win by a landslide..I bet the Canadians aren't voting for any other Californian Politicians. I don't know why no one has ever tried this before. How innovative!

    --
    air and light and time and space
  3. Lest we forget... by fobbman · · Score: 5, Funny

    A properly filled-out ballot is an innovate way to show your disgust of these practices.

  4. Spam Works! by Crispin+Cowan · · Score: 5, Funny
    Hey, spam really can increase your penis size. It has turned Bill Jones into a giant dick! :-)

    Crispin
    ----
    Crispin Cowan, Ph.D.
    Chief Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc.
    Immunix: Security Hardened Linux Distribution
    Available for purchase

  5. i got this spam... by kevin+lyda · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and i live in galway ireland.

    and here i thought florida had the weirdest voting laws...

    --
    US Citizen living abroad? Register to vote!
  6. Hilarious by CleverNickName · · Score: 4, Funny

    I got 4 of these spams in 2 days.

    The thing that I found equally offensive and hilarious, is that it said "Your email was selected off the Internet based on your voter demographics." My voter demographics?!

    Okay, anyone who knows me at all knows that I am about as far from Republican as you can get, and I am about as likely to vote for Bill Simon as I am to cut off my own leg.

    So what exactly were they going for, by targeting my "voter demographic"?