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StupidlyBrave
10-10-08, 06:32 AM
Well, maybe not themselves. Probably not the party either. But they claim to be authorized by RNC and McCain's general election committee.

The email was addressed to my name at a company that hasn't existed for the past 9 years. I don't use the address for correspondence, but I can still access the mailbox. The only exposure this address has ever had was a single posting to alt.cad.autocad in 1996.

The address is of the form <nickname>.<lastname>@<company>.com, so I don't think a dictionary approach would have been used to harvest the address.

Also

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Hobartlemagne
10-10-08, 06:42 AM
No surprise. Also they don't have to follow the new telemarketer phone laws either.
They should be thankful for all the gullible people who put their names and numbers
on the do-not-call list. It doesn't apply to political campaigns and they are allowed
to use the list to get numbers.
artifice
10-10-08, 08:22 AM
As someone who is on the sending side of SPAM- pretty much, if they provide a postal address and opt-out mechanism its legit.

unfortunately.