Comments on: Is It OK for Politicians to Spam? http://www.revenews.com/internet-strategy/is-it-ok-for-politicians-to-spam/ Discussion of Online Marketing, SEM, Social Media, Mobile and Video, Micro-Content, and Affiliate Marketing Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Shawn Collins http://www.revenews.com/internet-strategy/is-it-ok-for-politicians-to-spam/#comment-1516 Shawn Collins Wed, 17 May 2006 20:11:38 +0000 http://revenews.contentrobot.com/?p=349#comment-1516 > My understanding is that it is totally legal for politicians and nonprofits to spam you. I think that is the case - after all, they write the laws (the politicians). Just like they're exempt from the Do Not Call list. > My understanding is that it is totally legal for politicians and nonprofits to spam you.

I think that is the case – after all, they write the laws (the politicians).

Just like they’re exempt from the Do Not Call list.

]]> By: Jonathan (Trust) http://www.revenews.com/internet-strategy/is-it-ok-for-politicians-to-spam/#comment-1515 Jonathan (Trust) Wed, 17 May 2006 17:36:53 +0000 http://revenews.contentrobot.com/?p=349#comment-1515 I was actually kidding :) And it doesn't break any CAN SPAM laws since it had an opt out link, a valid subject line and header information and a legitmate physical address. I was actually kidding :)

And it doesn’t break any CAN SPAM laws since it had an opt out link, a valid subject line and header information and a legitmate physical address.

]]> By: Brook Schaaf http://www.revenews.com/internet-strategy/is-it-ok-for-politicians-to-spam/#comment-1514 Brook Schaaf Wed, 17 May 2006 16:38:45 +0000 http://revenews.contentrobot.com/?p=349#comment-1514 My understanding is that it is totally legal for politicians and nonprofits to spam you. They wrote the laws to cover anything they'd like to do electronically. I've gotten spam from a number of California politicians. When I worked on a state campaign last year, we used composite lists from different groups around the state. I never saw many complaints, so people didn't care or they'd been shaken out already. What I did have difficulty doing was convincing the campaign management that we shouldn't be emailing our list every day months before the election. The people at the cutting edge of politics and the internet really understand that the culture demands respect, credibility and transparency, but you'll undoubtedly find a lot of old school campaigns for years to come that don't. To Jonathan's comment - believe it or not, the media actually does filter out a lot of stuipd accusations from opponents' campaigns. We had really dumb attacks that the media mostly ignored. I think a candidate would really have to cross the line for it to becme an election issue. My understanding is that it is totally legal for politicians and nonprofits to spam you. They wrote the laws to cover anything they’d like to do electronically. I’ve gotten spam from a number of California politicians.

When I worked on a state campaign last year, we used composite lists from different groups around the state. I never saw many complaints, so people didn’t care or they’d been shaken out already. What I did have difficulty doing was convincing the campaign management that we shouldn’t be emailing our list every day months before the election.

The people at the cutting edge of politics and the internet really understand that the culture demands respect, credibility and transparency, but you’ll undoubtedly find a lot of old school campaigns for years to come that don’t.

To Jonathan’s comment – believe it or not, the media actually does filter out a lot of stuipd accusations from opponents’ campaigns. We had really dumb attacks that the media mostly ignored. I think a candidate would really have to cross the line for it to becme an election issue.

]]> By: Todd http://www.revenews.com/internet-strategy/is-it-ok-for-politicians-to-spam/#comment-1513 Todd Wed, 17 May 2006 16:37:55 +0000 http://revenews.contentrobot.com/?p=349#comment-1513 I've been getting spam political emails like this for at least a couple of years here in California. I guess when you register to vote here you opt-in to unlimited email lists? Most recently, I got one from someone running for city council in my city. A couple of weeks ago, I got one from a no on proposition 82 organization called "Stop the Reiner Initiative". The no on 82 email had this message at the end: "You received this email because you are registered to vote in the State of California. If you would like to be removed from this list please unsubscribe by clicking here. Please do not reply to this email. We will not be able to make individual responses to this email." On a side note: as much as I hate receiving political spam, I am very opposed to proposition 82 and was happy to hear about the stop Reiner initiative: www.stopreiner.org So, can spam actually be useful? I’ve been getting spam political emails like this for at least a couple of years here in California. I guess when you register to vote here you opt-in to unlimited email lists? Most recently, I got one from someone running for city council in my city. A couple of weeks ago, I got one from a no on proposition 82 organization called “Stop the Reiner Initiative”. The no on 82 email had this message at the end:

“You received this email because you are registered to vote in the State of California. If you would like to be removed from this list please unsubscribe by clicking here. Please do not reply to this email. We will not be able to make individual responses to this email.”

On a side note: as much as I hate receiving political spam, I am very opposed to proposition 82 and was happy to hear about the stop Reiner initiative: http://www.stopreiner.org
So, can spam actually be useful?

]]> By: Jonathan (Trust) http://www.revenews.com/internet-strategy/is-it-ok-for-politicians-to-spam/#comment-1511 Jonathan (Trust) Wed, 17 May 2006 15:42:37 +0000 http://revenews.contentrobot.com/?p=349#comment-1511 Something for the competition to use against him. Something for the competition to use against him.

]]> By: Dave Cole http://www.revenews.com/internet-strategy/is-it-ok-for-politicians-to-spam/#comment-1510 Dave Cole Wed, 17 May 2006 15:26:45 +0000 http://revenews.contentrobot.com/?p=349#comment-1510 Wow... Big brother's got your email address and he's not afraid to use it! I guess 'voting' is the governments way of 'opting in'? Wow… Big brother’s got your email address and he’s not afraid to use it!

I guess ‘voting’ is the governments way of ‘opting in’?

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