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Article #73Statement on Spam and VoteNader.org
From: larry
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 19:03
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 19:03
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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. Volunteer -------------- http://www.votenader.org/get_involved/index.php Ballot Access ---------- http://www.votenader.org/ballot_access/index.php Register to Vote ------- http://www.rockthevote.com/rtv_register.php Contribute ------------- http://www.votenader.org/contribute/index.php Contact Us ------------- http://www.votenader.org/contact/index.php -- Maoists (Nepal) draw inspiration from the 'Revolutionary International Movement', among whose affiliate is the American Revolutionary Communist Party that provides them their ideological sustenance. Observers have noticed striking similarities in the policies and guerilla tactics adopted by the Maoists and those of the Shining Path of Peru.. Maoist violence has already cost Nepal several hundred lives and destruction of property worth millions of rupees. In 1996, the year the insurgency commenced, 82 people were killed. This figure included insurgents, security forces, personnel and civilians. During the next year, total killings came down by half - 38 people died. The following year, in 1998, after the Maoists intensified their program of violence, 408 people were killed - nearly an elevenfold increase in the number of deaths over the previous year. Ever since, the death toll has been on the rise. By late 2000 the death toll has risen to over 2,100. As of August 2002, nearly 5,000 lives have been lost to the insurgency " Shining Path sent congratulations to RIM for its first anniversary in May of 1985. The Central Committee wrote, "...the people's war in our country continues to blaze defiantly, expanding, spreading its roots and preparing for newer and higher tasks, guided always by Marxism-Leninism-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 further
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10fd85,3d9ae83bf7878313,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10fd85,public X-Google-Thread: 13c4be,3d9ae83bf7878313,start X-Google-Attributes: gid13c4be,public X-Google-Thread: f4eb9,3d9ae83bf7878313,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf4eb9,public X-Google-Thread: ffc8f,3d9ae83bf7878313,start X-Google-Attributes: gidffc8f,public X-Google-Thread: 10eb3b,3d9ae83bf7878313,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10eb3b,public X-Google-Thread: 10f9a6,3d9ae83bf7878313,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10f9a6,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-08 18:12:30 PST From: larry@votenader.org Message-ID: <b42e9fe6.14e172ff@host-69-48-73-244.roc.choiceone.net> Newsgroups: phl.misc,es.comp.infosistemas.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,us.misc,clari.world.mideast.misc,fj.personal-ads.misc Subject: Statement on Spam and VoteNader.org Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2004 19:03:40 GMT Approved: larry@votenader.org Organization: Nader for President 2004 - P.O. Box 18002, Washington, DC 20036 - (202) 265-4000 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-69-48-73-244.roc.choiceone.net X-Poster: NewsPost 1.00.32 REGISTERED-lypryry Lines: 113 NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.138.5.133 X-Trace: 1081465165 lon-reader.news.telstra.net 56474 144.138.5.133 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news1.optus.net.au!optus!news.uwa.edu.au!nntp.waia.asn.au!quokka.wn.com.au!lon-reader.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!lon-numberer.news.telstra.net!lon-spool.news.telstra.net!203.14.2.27.MISMATCH!reader.news.telstra.net!not-for-mail