IP: more on Campaign spam is OK?

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "Ray Everett-Church" <ray@eprivacygroup.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 13:33:50 -0800
To: <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
Subject: RE: more on  Campaign spam is OK?

Dave (and the list):

The layers of obfuscation in this so-called statement boggle the mind.
It's not a statement, it's word salad, sprinkled with benevolent
sounding words like "opt-in," "targeted," "registered," etc. The
defining characteristic of "harvesting" email addresses is that they are
gathered indiscriminately, with no attention paid to any choice made by
the recipients and without any prayer of demographic targeting.

The only things cleared up by this statement are: 1) their vendor
willfully engaged in discredited practices (forgery, relay hijacking,
java-script "cloaked" URLs to complicate tracing to the spammers
website); and, 2) anyone who hired them based upon nonsensical
statements like "targeted a harvested list of registered republican
emails" has no right to be surprised at such a disastrous outcome.

-Ray

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