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IP: more on Campaign spam is OK?
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 16:46:03 -0500
------ Forwarded Message 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 -- --------------------------------------------------------- Ray Everett-Church, Esq. - ray () eprivacygroup com Chief Privacy Officer - ePrivacyGroup.com --------------------------------------------------------- Co-author: Internet Privacy for Dummies - Preorder Now! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764508466 ------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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