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See? I’m a natural at this!
Okay, I’ll let you in on a little secret: I’m thinking of going into the spam business. The hardest thing for Internet peddlers of prescription drugs (“Free meds!”), diet formulas (”Lose 60 lbs. in 3 wks!”), and sundry scams to overcome is the laborious task of finding working e-mail addresses of professional adults with disposable income.
Problem solved!
You see, in the past three weeks I’ve gotten three e-mails that are a veritable gold mine for spammers. One was from a candidate, the other two from a Mildly Retarded Partisan.
Usually, campaign people who send out e-mails have the recipients hidden in the “bcc:” header of the e-mail.
Not these guys!
Thanks to them, I now have a long list of some of the most sought-after e-mail addresses in the state.
Hey look — it’s the blackberry address of one of the best-known government officials in Missouri!
Uh-oh — I bet taxpayers in that school district would be mad if they found out she was receiving explicitly partisan campaign updates at her publicly-funded work address!
Great googly moogly — isn’t that person — no, it can’t be — yes, it is! Aren’t they related to you-know-who? Wow!
So thanks for those mass e-mails, guys. Keep them coming, and make sure I can keep seeing all the recipients’ addresses.
Sure, there are probably people who come to your campaign events, sign up to help, and expect you to keep their data relatively private.
And yeah, there are people helping you who would rather not have the world — or at least their bosses — know that they are engaged in partisan politics.
But so what? You URGENTLY need people at your phone bank next Monday, and spammers like me need more people to harass!
(P.S. It’s called bcc, and it stands for “blind carbon copy.” Know it. Learn it. Use it.)
(P.P.S. You’re welcome.)
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