[my comments below have nothing to do with list management. This is an off-topic posting]
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Vivek Khera wrote: > With spam being such a political hot-button these days, I'm sure a > very public "outing" of these offenders will be very effective at > getting it to stop That will only work for candidates who have something to lose. But as a last ditch effort of a candidate who will very well behind in the polls, it might seem like a risk worth taking. > Last fall, I had some local candidate spam me. After my second > complaint to his ISP, his web site was yanked and all access cut off. > This was two days before the election. Needless to say, he was not > pleased. ;-) The same thing happened to Bill Jones who was running in primary elections to be the Republican party candidate for governor of California last year. He was a distant third behind Bill Simon (who won the primary) and Richard Riorden. I think Jones was polling at about 10%. At first I thought that the Jones campaign was subject to a joe-job. They used a criminal spammer, hijacking vulnerable relays in S. Korea. As soon as I got the spam, I called the campaign and offered to help track down who was "joe-ing" them. After a few phone calls and faxes, it became clear that it had been authorized by the Jones campaign. I was one of many who reported it to their hosting company, along with a large number of recipients in Canada. (Most hit addresses were in the .ca TLD) One of the many articles about the incident is http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/2996334.htm Anyway, sorry for the off-topic rambling, but I do believe that we will see more spam from desparate politicians, but not from those who have a lot to lose. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ Relativism is the triumph of authority over truth, convention over justice Hate spam? Boycott MCI! http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/anti-spam/mci/
