Is the Dean Campaign Spamming?

bluelark writes "A few days ago, a friend of mine fowarded to me some spam apparently from the Howard Dean campaign. The sender's return address, however, was dean@america.propulsive.net. In addition, this is not the Texas email we've all heard about. Being bored, I did some research, and I found some intriguing results. If you are interested, I've posted the the technical details and the the spam. Even though the images in the email are being served from Venezuela, the links in the body of the spam are actually redirects from a marketing partner called eScriptions.net to a Dean for America registration page. It appears that the campaign is outsourcing their email with some dubious marketing partners who are then using notorious spamhauses to send out the actual email. Why does a supposedly "net savvy" campaign even think for one second that this approach is acceptable?"

Comments

Just proves

[Anonymous Coward]

That the campaign is as clueless as the man himself.

Re:All bulk email houses are 'suspicious'

[schon]

I wrote an application so that staff in our college could go to a web page and send mail to the students of our college [...] this got flagged by places like Hotmail and Yahoo as spam because I had just bcc'ed a large number of people.

I call bullshit.

Unless your university was subcontracting it's email services to Hotmail and Yahoo, there is no way they'd know you were BCC'ing anyone, because (by definition), BCCs aren't seen by the recipient (either the user or mailserver.)

If you're gonna make shit up about email, at least learn a little bit about how it works first.

Re:No surprise here, Dean is a scumbag lefty

[forkboy]

If I had mod points you'd get modded up, not down. I'm no friend of the right (or the left for that matter) but Dean's a creep. We need someone in office who will shake things up...we're in a sad state of affairs right now and neither side is brave enough to make any major changes. (Unless of course those changes involve the erosion of our civil liberties and/or more money in their consituents' pockets.)

Maybe its because..

[krsjuan]

Dean is a huge fraud!