FC: Two examples of political spam, and why not to trust politicians

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

A perhaps-timely excerpt from my column that appeared Monday, saying we 
should trust technology instead of politicians to stop spam:

http://news.com.com/2010-1074-957024.html
> Politicians, always cunning about keeping their options open, have 
> exempted themselves from all existing and proposed anti-spam laws. The 
> Democratic Party has been caught spamming, as has Bill Jones, the recent 
> unsuccessful Republican candidate for governor of California. [...]

Previous Politech messages:

"Bulk, unsolicited political email isn't spam -- right?"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03203.html

"Confirmed: Calif. gov wannabe Bill Jones is a recidivist spammer"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03200.html

"Did Florida's Jeb Bush spam voters by using Democratic mail list?"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03330.html

-Declan

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Date: 10 Sep 2002 21:04:15 -0400
From: "John R Levine" <johnl () iecc com>
To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan () well com>
Subject: Political spam season again

This showed up here this morning, to an address often scraped from my web
site.  The mail headers were typical forged spamware junk, via an open
relay in India that's sent a lot of spam in the past week.

I have no idea whether this is for real or a joe job, but since I live in
upstate New York, it's not a very good one either way.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl () iecc com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
"I shook hands with Senators Dole and Inouye," said Tom, disarmingly.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 18:21:51 -0400
From: "dbm1.4e.T.Mc.Vote for Ron Winship Newportairinfo () iecc com"
    <clairinfo () iecc com>
To: "airinfo () iecc com" <airinfo () iecc com>
Subject: Vote for Ron Winship Newport Beach City Council District #4 xdow

Vote for Ron Winship Newport Beach City Council District #4


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As a member of the Ocean Outfall Group, Greenlight Committee to stop
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is a News Television producer and co-founder of the leading New Media/
Internet News programming on the web:    Cutting Edge - a talk show
                       http://www.cuttingedge-atalkshow.com

Ron says:  "It's time to make sense!  We need quality long term
thinking in all areas of government.  The days of  unaccountable
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Serene Stokes of the NMUSD supported her pal, convicted DUI fellow board
member Jim Ferryman - while ONE STRIKE kids were expelled for having a
beer in their cars, after school and  - off campus!  She then spearheaded
the so-called Bully Reg!

Wayne Clark MWDOC member waffles on the waiver and then looks out for
himself as a water engineer? "Reclaimed" to drink?

Gary Adams NBCC member, worked aggressively against Greenlight,  then
voted for a high rise Connexant Towers! What next?  Ricky Taylor is a
proud
Democrat with a single  note El Toro  pro-airport campaign and no
position
on the 2nd Amendment!

You will get the government - you deserve. Vote Nov 5th!
       JOIN OUR TEAM - KEEP NB CLEAN & GREEN!
 Ron Winship - "The Responsible Choice" District #4

   e-mail: Ron2Anna () aol com
   website:  http://www.cuttingedge-atalkshow.com
Printed by: The Campaign to Elect Ron Winship
P.O. Box 9964, Newport Beach California

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From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <suresh () hserus net>
To: <declan () well com>
Subject: More Political Spam
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 13:16:24 +0800

This time for a city council election in DC.

In this case, the spammer seems to be confusing a political spam with a
mortgage spam, given the choice of from address ...

Sent, just like the typical mortgage spam, through an open relay in China.

    -srs

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Received: from 61.171.134.219 [208.18.252.8] by mail.cztvu.ah165.net
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Message-ID: <00004bff7f31$00001bec$00000681@61.170.145.79>
To: <channyfann>
From: ezmortgages76 () dbzmail com
Subject: VOTE SINGLETON.....SEPTEMBER 10................
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Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 20:58:15 -0500
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