[I also got hit by the Russo spam, including being subscribed to an address that I've never used and that only spammers exploit. --Declan] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Russo spam nothing new Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 04:14:38 -0500 (CDT) From: John Schultz <jschultz@private> Reply-To: John Schultz <jschultz@private> To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private> Declan, I'm a bit behind in my Politech email, but recently saw the article referencing Aaron Russo's campaign sending out spam. A few months ago when Russo started campaigning for the LP Presidential nomination, I received a couple emails, complete with random text at the end of the message body, allegedly from his campaign. When I contacted his campaign via their website, I received no response as to if these messages were legitimate, why I was receiving them, or where they had acquired my email address from. I am active in my state Libertarian Party and a member of the national LP, so I assume that's how the campaign knew to email me (I'm not accusing either the state or national party of giving out my email address though). About a month later, I found myself a member of an announcement email list from the Russo campaign. The list includes an optout link, which I have not exercised as I am still following Russo's campaign run, albeit as a supporter of one of his opponents, Gary Nolan. I still find it amazing that political campaigns don't think (or care, I'm not sure which is the accurate sentiment) about the negative impacts of sending spam out. It also especially troubles me that this occurred with a member of "my" party. John Schultz jschultz@private _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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