Statement on Spam and VoteNader.org

steven_at_votenader.org
Date: 04/09/04

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    Spam from VoteNader.org? (Or naderexplore04.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 "campaign@votenader.org,"
    contain a "Paid for by Nader for President 2004" statement at the
    bottom, and have "updates@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 abuse@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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    Register to Vote ------- http://www.rockthevote.com/rtv_register.php
    Contribute ------------- http://www.votenader.org/contribute/index.php
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    --
-Maoism,
battling for the emancipation of our people for the purpose of and at the
service of the world revolution. Thus we are contributing and will
contribute to the tasks of the RIM, more and more willing and able to aid in
every possible way our glorious common cause: the emancipation of the
proletariat and communism prevailing though out the earth.
"Comrades, the Communist Party of Peru is part of the Revolutionary
Internationalist Movement and feels honored to be so, honored to serve in
such a far-reaching and historic vanguard battle, as well as to have the
comrades in arms found in our Movement's ranks; and furthermore, the Party
feels fortified and augmented by the repeated expressions of support, of
proletarian internationalism, which it receives from the very outstanding
fraternal communist parties and organizations, and very especially from the
Committee of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement to which we extend
our revolutionary gratitude for its constant encouragement and support. All
this, comrades, increases our proletarian internationalist responsibility
and our unshakeable commitment to the world revolution and its concrete form
today, the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement."
NION: ANSWERs Needed
Is NION's financial relationship with IFCO some innocuous charitable funding
arrangement? Is it a coincidence that NION donations are funneled through an
organization with links to communist and pro-Palestinian groups? Is it a
coincidence that NION's donations are mailed to an organization that has
links with Castro? Is it a coincidence
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    • Statement on Spam and VoteNader.org
      ... Spam from VoteNader.org? ... campaign, or be about our campaign -- perhaps the "From" and or ... If you are receiving this SPAM, ... Other groups that comprise the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement are the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist, the Union of Iranian Communists and the Nepal Communist Party. ...
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      ... Spam from VoteNader.org? ... campaign, or be about our campaign -- perhaps the "From" and or ... If you are receiving this SPAM, ... Maoists draw inspiration from the 'Revolutionary International Movement', among whose affiliate is the American Revolutionary Communist Party that provides them their ideological sustenance. ...
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