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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?"
You mean anti neocon? Good.
pro-French/i>
Not an isolationaist. Excellent.
pro-welfare
A social conscience instead of dog-eat-dog capitalism? Even better.
anti-religion
Which is perferct. 58% of Americans believe in the virgin birth, whereas only ~20% believe in Evolution. Majority believes in the fallacty that one has to believe in God in order to be a moral person.
This way you're going the way of the radical islamist nations: down the drain intellectually and socially.
This is probably just the opposition doing general ratfucking in the spirit of Donald Segretti and all the other Nixon Dirty Tricksters. I doubt they'd go about spamming people directly after the problems with the Texas email. Yes, the Dean Campaign is net-savvy - they have to be. That's the core of their support, that's the source of their fundraising, that's the general nature of the beast. Like it or not, Dean's core consituancy are those that care about YRO. -- Funksaw
Have you folks learned nothing? Did you think for a second this guy was anything else? Want to buy a bridge?
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
He uses spam because he is afraid of answering questions here from slashdotters who happen to be voters..
Don't Tread on OpenSource
A politician with questionable ethics?
Dont tell me this is a suprise?
If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done?
By "war", you are referring to the unprecedented, unjustified, trumped-up, "pre-emptive" invasion of a non-threatening foreign country that is now costing the USA about a billion dollars and 3-5 American soldiers' lives every week, with no end in sight? Unless Bush pulls some Iraqi miracle out of his ass during the next year, I think ads showing that Dean is antiwar would be the best publicity Dean could ask for.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
Spammers and Politicians. Say it real fast three or for times and they sound they same. My point:
Both survive by leeching off resources they don't possess.
Both produce tons of useless text.
Both threaten you with the law if you try to block them in any way.
Both invade your privacy and take away your freedom of action. Oh... I can think of more simularities, but that would require several pages and a liberal sprinkling of profanity, (something which I usually try to avoid unless in the presence of hammers or income tax forms).
When you get right down to it, the internet user needs to fight back, and here's how:
1) Never buy a product from a spammer, and don't associate with anyone who does.
2) Push for the creation of laws which make spamming a capital offense. (I know... Not a smowballs chance, but it's worth a try, 'cause you never know...)
3) Create lists of spammers, and the companies they promote and make them available for all to see, for that wishfull time when public flogging is back in vouge.
4) Revoke citizenship of spammers and force them to live somewhere else.
It's probably futile, but then again, what's futility for anyways?
Fast machines, powerfull AI, impulsive invention,... All I lack is a good espresso machine!
If being opposed to people who have no conscience when it comes to matters of their fellow man's condition, then call me Osama! Being a good "American" these days is nothing more than being a yes man for the current regime and a blathering idiot who waves flags with no regard for what that flag was supposed to mean when it was created. You fools who think you are good Americans are dupes.
Pro-French
Hmm?? Who brought up the French? Leaving aside the fact that they are largely responsible for many great things where it counts: intellectual, artistic and culinary... what did the French do to you? I mean personally? Or are you just joining the rest of the mob and saying "me too"!?
Pro-welfare
Just look at any country that actually makes provisions for it's citizens welfare and I will show you a country with a happier citizenry. As it is most Americans are boorish, selfish crabs. To most "good Amreicans" it's all about "me" and everyone else be damned. That's why we had the dotbomb bubble and Enron. That's not business, that's incompetence. But it's also no surprise given most American's penchant for mediocrity.
Anti-religion
Religion is fine as long as you don't try to force it down everyone else's throat. When you do that, you start to act like the religious extremists in the middle east. Kind of like Bush encouraging "faith-based initiatives". Why on earth should someone who doesn't believe in Bush's god (ha! fucking sinner) have to go to a church that supports Bush's god and expects that person to also convert or believe in Bush's god? Why should a person who doesn't want to have anything to do with Bush's god have to suffer because the church WON'T give them help unless they convert. If you are "pro-religion" are you saying that people who don't believe what you believe should suffer? Doesn't sound too "christian" to me. I hope Jesus pokes your eyes out when you meet him.
Oh... I see you are trying to start a flame war? OK. Try harder.
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