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Candidate Ads, Coming Soon To An Inbox Near You

Posted by timothy on from the spam-from-the-pork-peddlers dept.

ooby writes "MSNBC reports that Bush and Kerry plan to shoot off a million or so emails to their closest friends. By using the Internet to distribute ads, presidential candidates believe they can reach more people using less money. I guess that's why they wrote that loophole in that awesome new spam law."

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  1. Re:if they spam me by Reverend528 · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're actually going to send spams advertising their opponent's campaigns.

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  2. Adult content filter by Michael+Crutcher · · Score: 5, Funny
    Bush might try to send me some email to try to solicit a contribution but I'm reasonably sure that my adult content filter will delete it.

    If I can devise a Lurch filter I might be able to avoid any messages from Kerry too.

  3. Re:Email? What about phone?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think you said why we like this guy.

    "I'm not Bush!"

  4. But you HAVE to vote for one of them... by calmdude · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kodos: It's true, we are aliens, but what are you going to do about it? It's a two-party system...you HAVE to vote for one of us!!

    Man: He's right, this is a two-party system!

    Second Man: Well, I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate.

    Kang: Go ahead, throw your vote away! (evil laugh)

  5. Re:The solution by c1ay · · Score: 5, Funny
    cc contact@ataconnect.org while you're at it to make sure they get enough copies to send to their friends. Everyone should probably forward their copy to darl@sco.com as well. He's hoping to have about $5 billion available that he could contribute to the campaign effort as well so I'm sure the candidates would really appreciate it.

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  6. Re:The solution by c1ay · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe not though. According to Dave Barry there's at least 14 or 15 people that are not on the internet yet. This type of campaigning would miss these people.

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