John McCain is Spamming Me
By kenya on Aug 1, 2008 in Email
Today I received my second email from the John McCain campaign though I’ve never signed up to receive such emails. I’ve had this particular email account for 8-10 years and I use it to receive emails from tech sites such as CNet/TechRepublic and E-Commerce Times. I’ve probably been subscribed to these emails for that long as well (note to self: unsubscribe). At any rate, how did John McCain and the Republican party get my email address? This is not an email address that anyone knows so it’s unlikely that someone I know subscribed me. That, to me, leaves only one possibility: they bought it. This particular address is a magnet for spam (I have good filtering on it) but that means that this address is probably bought and sold frequently.
Perhaps the campaign saw how well Obama was doing with his electronic outreach and wanted to do the same. This election season seems to have raised the bar in terms of electronic outreach. In previous elections, I relied on TV to give me information about the candidates. Now campaigns are reaching out to voters directly, even inviting them to events. I like that. I don’t like, however, that I’m receiving emails to which I did not subscribe.
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