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

Have we learned nothing from Nixon?

[Funksaw]

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

Re:you know...

[Jeremi]

This guy can be turned directly into the scion of leftist antiwar evil with a few carefully placed TV ads.

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.