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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?"
A politician lying! Oh dear!
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*twitch*
I want to know his slashdot user ID.
Although to retain that critical "slashdot bloc", Dean should probably also make some sort of public apology, perhaps via another mass e-mailing.
Perhaps being net saavy means that you know enough to farm it out and not have to:
1) worry about doing it yourself, and
2) being able to blame it on someone else when it all goes badly (or is revealed as spam).
I thought being net saavy meant I had excellent karma on Slashdot, used pine to get my email, and lynx to view the web.
Now I have to start over?... What if I mention linux a few times?
http://use.perl.org
Why wasn't this tidbit of info in the original post?
What? A post which includes all sides of the story? You must be new.
The dean campaign has been doing a very good job of using the net to build their grass roots, not that Howard Dean knows how to configure a Cisco router, or whatever.
Oh, Then I don't want Howard Dean to be my canidate. I was misinformed.
I will only vote for people who can configure a Cisco router. That way, I am assurded that their political stances, and agendas coincide with mine.
http://use.perl.org
now what were we talking about?
This happens more often then you think. In my home town during a recent election the republicans sent out mailings pretending to be from the communist party endorsing the democratic candidate. Too bad the democrats did not retaliate by sending out mailing from the white supremacists endorsing the republican candidate. Although that would not have the same impact since the local white supremacists were endorsing the republican candidate.
War is necrophilia.
If you are starting over then get it right from the beginning.
:)
It is GNU/Linux
Saying your OS is the best because more people use it is like saying MacDonalds make the best food
I wouldn't be surprised. It happens all the time in our school newspaper. Liberals write in pretending to be racist conservative bigots, then every opinions letter over the next two week is in response to how that person, along with all conservatives, is a moron.
Some of these were simply too incredible to believe. One time I looked the person up and he didn't even exist in the school directory, which is updated regularly! Our school paper apparently doesn't do a good job checking these people. However, this is the same school paper that posted an article about the dangers dihydrogen monoxide, and how bad Bush environmental policy is responsible for the widespread use of this "chemical".
BTW, according to my extensive studies, at the college level conservative girls are definitely hotter than liberals ones, but I have a feeling this may not be the case for older women.