Statement on Spam and VoteNader.org
gugli...@votenader.org
You may have received spam email recently that appears to come from our
campaign, or be about our campaign -- perhaps the "From" and or
"Reply-to" addresses look like they are coming from VoteNader.org. Or
perhaps you have received a message that appears to come from an
individual (if the address is real, the real owner probably did not send
this email either) with suppressed recipients. Or maybe you received an
email that appeared to come from yourself promoting our site.
These messages are NOT from Nader for President 2004, and these email
tactics are NOT condoned by our campaign in any way.
UPDATE: Some of the latest forged emails have been made to appear to be
coming from naderexplore04.org. Again, we are not responsible for this
unfortunate abuse of email, and there is little in the technical sense
that we can do to prevent this as it has nothing to do with our actual
infrastructure. We are collecting information.
NOTE: The emails with malicious code (viruses, worms, etc.) often have
attachments. Our campaign will NEVER send attachments in our
announcement emails to you. Please be sure that you have anti-virus
software and have the latest updates available for your anti-virus
software.
Our hosting service has alerted us to say that Nader for President 2004
appears to be the target of what is called a "Joe Job." Such an event is
where a spammer forges email to make it appear to have come from some
other domain (such as ours -- or yourself). This is hard to prevent on
our end and part of the insecure nature of the email protocol in
general.
Members of our actual email list must request to receive email from us
(either through Ralph's signup sheets or subscribing during our
exploratory phase, or now on our campaign site). When one signs up for
email they must reply to a confirmation message before they receive our
list announcements.
Our public announcement emails come from "camp...@votenader.org,"
contain a "Paid for by Nader for President 2004" statement at the
bottom, and have "upd...@lists.votenader.org" in the "To:" header.
Unfortunately, some of these indicators can be forged as well.
Most of the Spam that we have received complaints about appear to be
forged from email addresses not associated with votenader.org (often
forged to appear to be coming from government email addresses), and have
our website code embedded in the body of the email with hidden tags that
contain random words that work to subvert anti-spam software.
If you are on our lists, you can ALWAYS unsubscribe at ANY time by
following the instructions included at the end of our announcements. You
can also use our unsubscribe page using the email address you signed up
with.
If you are receiving this SPAM, we extend our apologies.
We will pursue the spammers to the full extent of the law.
For more information, please review these resources:
How Do I Determine the Source of an Email?
http://www.aota.net/Email_Spam_Prevention_and_Mgmt/emailsource.php4
Why Does This Spam Look Like I Sent It?
http://www.aota.net/Email_Spam_Prevention_and_Mgmt/spamfrom.php4
Coping with a Joe Job
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/sabotage-coping-joe-job/2
Please contact ab...@votenader.org with any questions. We have received
many samples of the spam and are working to identify the source, if
possible.
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big. I honestly rarely find a person who does not feel comfortable with
talking about rude things (directly/indirectly), then today we see again
and again, we publicly lie and talk about rude things and it is accepted
by everyone, welcome to real _faithful_ followers of God?s religions.
We are living in a controlled society, where most of the things are
fake, real things have not right to exist. No I am not joking I am
telling you the truth. The fact is every thing in today?s world is run
by secret services. So when secret service workers sleep around every
once in a while, a few things change, they lose Haya or shame, then they
lose the real concept of moral values and human values. Then as I
mentioned earlier every major medium in society is controlled, these
people who have tendency to lie, sleep around, cheat and have no Haya,
when they go and run any business and medium, their thoughts and
faithlessness, characterless ness reflects in those things, like today?s
media, not every person who works for radio TV is a jew, then how can it
be that they present rude things, because even those who are against the
current system in place, have no faith and no real concept of right and
wrong. This is what happens when we leave God and religion.
But this is just the beginning, I honestly am concerned about those
children who will grow watching and hearing all these rude things,
basically we and our secret services are creating a setup where we kill
people shame, concept of right and wrong, caring about people, being
honest and teaching them to cheat, compromise and fear death before they
even step in practical life. Today we are directing our children and
society in bad direction ourselves, knowingly, thinking this is just the
way to go.
For example lets just look at the front pages of some of the newspap