[PLUG] unsolicited election email

[Percival, Ray]

You are most likely right on the bots.

OTOH as far as voting against her goes you must keep in mind that this would very much be a vote against her and not for the other person and that this is , for me, a litmus test issue. In other words I will vote against spam *every* time because to me with this development that just became the single biggest issue in the race. You may disagree with me but I most likely think many things that you use as a political litmus test are "foolish".

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeme A Brelin 
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 1:52 PM
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: RE: [PLUG] unsolicited election email



On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Percival, Ray wrote:
> By default you have made it a discussion on merits. I can't vote for
> or against her but I would encourage you all who can to vote against
> her and make it clear this is why.

You'd really elect someone about whom you know nothing merely based on a
single misdeed by the opponent?

Now, I'm all for a none-of-the-above option and even more for discouraging
the uninformed from voting at all (at best, it just adds noise; at worst,
it improves the count for the side with the biggest marketting budget),
but I would never EVER consider voting for one person as a vote against
another.  That's just foolishness.

> To answer your question she got it the same way any spammer gets it.
> Bots, buying it off lists. Any of the many ways those scumbags use to
> get a email address. Google or search /. on the subject and you will
> see that it is quite common and that they work with the same people
> who send out all the other spam.

That's a really silly notion, too.  How can a bot tell whether an address
is within a particular city council district?

There is something more careful at work here than mere bots.  Think about
the problem and imagine a solution.  Automated email harvesting from the
mailing list archives and USENET probably isn't a part of it.

J.
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