Quick update
Yes, it's been forever and a day since I've made a real update to this journal. This isn't one either; I do plan on making a real update this weekend sometime, though. (Stay tuned...)
I just wanted to make this entry... well... because. I get a crapton of spam on my e-mail servers, most of which just gets filtered off to the bit bucket automatically, and some of which ends up in my inbox. I mostly ignore all these... but every once in a while I get something that really does piss me off. Like today, for the second time in the last month I've gotten political spam from Shiela Sorensen (who is a local republican running for a position in the Idaho state legislature).
The text of her spam was about the same as the rest of the political tripe you see running around this state all the time, so I don't think it's all that important to quote it here. But I will share my response:
Dear Shiela Sorensen,
Please remove my name from your e-mail list. I did not opt into this list,
nor would I have if I had the choice. For that matter, I'm curious: From
whom did you purchase my e-mail address?
I have reported the SPAM you sent me to both of the service providers you
used to relay the message to me.
Please note also that I consider your actions regarding this unsolicited
political e-mail to be gross negligence and complete disregard of common
internet courtesy. (Are you even aware that in sending SPAM like this you
are indirectly supporting the economy of those malicious hackers who go
about writing computer viruses which hijack home and coporate machines and
turn them into the bot-nets which then relay spam like this?)
The fact that you consider this to be an ethically responsible means of
promoting your campaign speaks volumes to the level at which you do not
investigate and therefore will not understand the driving forces behind
current issues. (And if you can't even master something as simple as the
cardinal rule of "DO NOT SEND SPAM," do you really think I'd want someone
like you representing me on our state's many other vastly more important
issues?)
Your complete misunderstaing of this issue has bolstered my interest enough
in the coming election to find out who among the various candidates has the
greatest likelihood of beating you and voting for them instead.
Yours hoping for your coming defeat,
Going through her website just makes the bile rise in the back of my throat. There are many things I like about this state. This person, and those significantly like her, are not among them. (I mean, come on? The bullshit "Legislative Scorecard" which compares her votes on issues with a what amounts to the wishes of a biased group of rich white men in the state? Dear god-- a political parrot like this is the last thing I want in a leadership position in my state!)
I just wanted to make this entry... well... because. I get a crapton of spam on my e-mail servers, most of which just gets filtered off to the bit bucket automatically, and some of which ends up in my inbox. I mostly ignore all these... but every once in a while I get something that really does piss me off. Like today, for the second time in the last month I've gotten political spam from Shiela Sorensen (who is a local republican running for a position in the Idaho state legislature).
The text of her spam was about the same as the rest of the political tripe you see running around this state all the time, so I don't think it's all that important to quote it here. But I will share my response:
Dear Shiela Sorensen,
Please remove my name from your e-mail list. I did not opt into this list,
nor would I have if I had the choice. For that matter, I'm curious: From
whom did you purchase my e-mail address?
I have reported the SPAM you sent me to both of the service providers you
used to relay the message to me.
Please note also that I consider your actions regarding this unsolicited
political e-mail to be gross negligence and complete disregard of common
internet courtesy. (Are you even aware that in sending SPAM like this you
are indirectly supporting the economy of those malicious hackers who go
about writing computer viruses which hijack home and coporate machines and
turn them into the bot-nets which then relay spam like this?)
The fact that you consider this to be an ethically responsible means of
promoting your campaign speaks volumes to the level at which you do not
investigate and therefore will not understand the driving forces behind
current issues. (And if you can't even master something as simple as the
cardinal rule of "DO NOT SEND SPAM," do you really think I'd want someone
like you representing me on our state's many other vastly more important
issues?)
Your complete misunderstaing of this issue has bolstered my interest enough
in the coming election to find out who among the various candidates has the
greatest likelihood of beating you and voting for them instead.
Yours hoping for your coming defeat,
Going through her website just makes the bile rise in the back of my throat. There are many things I like about this state. This person, and those significantly like her, are not among them. (I mean, come on? The bullshit "Legislative Scorecard" which compares her votes on issues with a what amounts to the wishes of a biased group of rich white men in the state? Dear god-- a political parrot like this is the last thing I want in a leadership position in my state!)