bad form

[cellio]

About a week ago I started receiving spam ("that you signed up for" -- um, no) from the Obama campaign. Complaints to their postmaster have gone unheeded (and have not bounced). My first letter took the tone of "this must be a mistake" and I commended them on the otherwise good experiences I've had with their campaign while asking them to correct this error; the second was closer to "you are reflecting poorly on your candidate". Still nada. As a matter of security I do not follow "unsubscribe" links in unsolicited email (who knows what they'll really do?), though I did go to their site (through the front door) and leave feedback reporting this problem.

The problem is not only continuing but escalating. I can set my spam filters to take care of this, but it's bad manners on their part and seems unwise when they want my vote.

If anyone reading this has ties to this campaign, you might want to tell them to knock it off. I would point out that the opposition has not stooped to spamming me so far. (If I'm really lucky, perhaps this post will snare a campaign person following referrer links.)

Comments

[laid.livejournal.com]

Did you email them asking a question? That's how I ended up on it. I read it for the lulz now.

[asim.livejournal.com]

The link _will_ unsubscribe. I know, because I had an extra email account on it; used the link to jump off, and get nothing else in that mailbox from the campaign -- or any other, for that matter.

Huckabee, on the other hand...*sigh*

[scaharp.livejournal.com]

Oh, that does suck.

I "joined" the campaign recently, so I get the emails also. They're clearly an automated thing that gets sent to everyone on their list (it is curious how they got your address, though). I get one almost every day. Their postmaster is probably inundated with thousands of emails from folks like you who do not want to use the unsubscribe feature, so I would imagine it could take a few days to take care of it.

They've been so polite and reasonable in all other dealings I've had, and they stress that as well in their how-to-be-a-campaigner literature, so I have to imagine they *intend* to follow your directive reasonably soon, but haven't been able to yet.

Maybe since Asim says the unsubscribe link worked and didn't jeopardize his address, you could try that even though it's not your normal protocol.

I'm sorry about this, and if I speak in person to anyone in the campaign I'll mention it to them.

[tashabear.livejournal.com]

You're not getting spammed by McCain because no one there knows how to use email, apparently (http://coloradoindependent.com/9151/oops-colorado-mccain-camp-sends-internal-e-mail-to-reporters).

[starmalachite.livejournal.com]

No spam here from either candidate, but I really wish the McCain campaign would knock off the ^()*&^%! robocalls. Attempts to reach a human result in "mailbox full" messages.