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:Dept. of Honest Mistakes

[snillfisk]

Funny how when Orrin Hatch hires another company to run his website and that company violates copyright laws, it's Orrin Hatch's fault and he should be responsible.

But when the allegedly net-savvy Dean does the same, it's an honest mistake.

You must be new here.

Re:Dean Campaigners are Net Savvy

[_w00d_]

If that doesn't define a net-savvy campaign, then I defy you to come up with a better definition.

Which politician could be more net savvy than the former Vice President who invented the Internet? :)