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

Re:Net Savvy. Not

[c4Ff3In3 4ddiC]

And before anyone say just press the delete key how do you do that on that average 3000 spams I get a month?

Get one of them birdies like Homer Simpson.

If he's really net savvy

[commodoresloat]

I want to know his slashdot user ID.

Re:Perhaps....

[notque]

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?

Re:Dept. of Nasty Tricks

[Politburo]

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.

Re:What they mean is

[notque]

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.

Re:Official Dean For America Response

[buddha42]

jeez didn't anyone ever teach you, never post your email on a web page... you'll get spammed!

now what were we talking about?

Re:Dean does not control what volunenteers do...

[Malcontent]

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.