FC: One more round of replies to Florida legislative survey

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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From: "Ray Everett-Church" <ray () everett org>
To: <declan () well com>
Subject: RE: Florida "legislative survey" does appear to be... real
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:01:45 -0700


Declan:

A longtime friend who works for the Florida legislature tells me that this
is indeed a real communication, most likely the brainchild of Florida
Speaker of the House Byrd, who is running for the US Senate. He's apparently
doing everything he can to build up a big database for get out the vote and
fundraising. I'm told he recently did a mass mailing to all the Florida
citizens who have signed up for the new "Choose Life" license plate.

-Ray



From: Dodsonm () aol com
Message-ID: <1e6.f8f5e6e.2c906979 () aol com>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 07:48:09 EDT
Subject: Re:  FC: Is Florida government legislative survey real? or spam? 
or both?
To: declan () well com


As a follow-up, see the St. Petersburg article. at
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/09/10/State/It_s_spam__some_say_o.shtml


It's spam, some say of e-mail by Byrd

The House speaker is criticized for sending out 25,000 unsolicited
e-mails.




From: Rich Wellner <rw2 () poliglut org>
To: declan () well com
Subject: Re: FC: Florida "legislative survey" does appear to be... real


Declan McCullagh <declan () well com> writes:

> This confusion is a good reason why the governments should only be using
> .gov, .mil, or state.us addressing.

In principle this would be great.  But in practice .gov gets attacked more
than others (or so I'm told by a .gov net ad I know), so sometimes the choice
must be made between fighting the black hats and getting the work that the tax
payers are sponsoring done.

rw2

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http://poliglut.org
Because the oval office has no corners


Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:23:34 -0400
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From: "Charlene White" <CWhite () iir com>
To: <declan () well com>


Nope, you nailed it.  It's incompetence, but probably at the executive 
rather than the technician level.

Charlene M. White
Tallahassee, Florida
Lifelong Florida Resident




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