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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.""

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  1. My Bill Jones experience by zsazsa · · Score: 5, Informative

    I submitted my page on Bill Jones's spams a couple days ago, and it was rejected:

    2002-02-28 00:58:56 California Gubernatorial Canidate Resorts to Spam (articles,spam) (rejected)

    Anyway, I'm not bitter. Check out my page on it anyway: http://polpo.org/jonesspam/. Basically, I pick apart the mail and the "click here to remove yourself from our list" page (which involves some novel Javascript-based HTML obfuscation) and find out who one of the spammers might be.

    After talking with some people about this and doing a simple Google search I found that he's been doing this for a couple months now, with MSNBC doing this story on it in December. They have a followup story here.

    By the way, don't count on Bill Jones's office writing you back when you complain to them about the spam. I haven't recieved a response yet.

    Ian

  2. Re:Not only did I get this spam... by NaturePhotog · · Score: 3, Informative

    Does California still have the death penalty?

    Yes, but carried out at a much lower rate than in Texas or Oklahoma. He could be elected, serve, and retire before they got around to him. I'm against the death penalty, but I might be willing to make an exception in this case :-)

    In any event, I'm pretty sure this counts as 'three strikes' so he can be locked up for good. Ironically, it's a bill he authored. Seems fitting to me...

  3. CALL THEM by drDugan · · Score: 4, Informative

    916-349-2002

    they tried to support their actions, citing 1st amendment and an unsubscribe.

    I told them to go to hell.