FC: Bradley campaign rents email lists to Congressional candidates?

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:47:49 -0400
> From: [longtime politech reader]
> To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
> Subject: Regarding Bill Bradley use of email addresses
>
> Funny you should mention this. Here's a note I recently sent to a VA
> candidate. I've had no response. Please anonymize the note if you send
> it to Politech. I have the candidate's original note, if that interests
> you.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Democratic Candidate Needs Your Help to Keep the Bill
> Bradley campaign going at the Congressional level in Northern Virginia
> Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 17:41:19 -0400
> From: [snip]
> To: campaign () tombellanca com
> References: <IHEPLGMKPCNLCCJKOLJPIEJBCCAA.campaign () tombellanca com>
>
> > BELLANCA FOR CONGRESS 2000 wrote:
> >
> > BELLANCA FOR CONGRESS 2000
> > P.O. Box 2184
> > Reston, VA 20191
> >
> > April 2, 2000
> >
> > Dear Bill Bradley Supporters:
>
> Dear candidate: You really, really, really don't want to send people
> gigantic attachments such as the one you just sent me. Whatever the
> merits of your appeal, you've annoyed me by wasting my time and
> bandwidth on your attachment, when a plain text email would have been
> just fine.
>
> Even worse, your note is spam -- since I never contacted you nor did I
> authorize the Bradley campaign to share my email address with anyone
> else for any other use. I'm considering complaining to the Bradley
> campaign, the VA and national Democratic parties, and Federal election
> authorities about this violation of my privacy. My reaction would have
> been entirely different had the Bradley campaign written to me and
> suggested I contact you or visit your Web site for information. Can you
> see the difference in that approach?

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