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December 08, 2003Something Fishy in my E-mailBy Karl-Thomas MusselmanAt first I thought it might be a random fluke. Last week, I received an e-mail from the John Kerry Campaign concerning his HIV/AIDS platform including links back to his website. The e-mail was an official campaign e-mail and I had to reply to opt out being added to their campaign. Now of course, I have visited his site before, but never have I signed up or asked for any material about HIV/AIDS. I wrote it off just as an oddball occurrence. But today things changed. I got in my e-mail to the same address, official e-mails from the Dick Gephardt and Wesley Clark Campaigns concerning their stances on HIV/AIDS issues. The Gephardt e-mail makes it very clear that if I don't unsubscribe I will continue to receive e-mails, just like the Kerry one. The Clark one encourages me to explore their site and join but makes no mention of whether or not I am actually on their e-mail list now. I am trying to figure out what is up here. Either some gay advocacy group has sold their e-mail distribution lists without my knowing, or these campaigns are running some software to gather e-mail addresses related to particular interest groups. In any case, I am not pleased if this is not an isolated case. I have not signed up for these campaigns and wonder how many of these campaigns "supporters" are involuntarily in their databases. Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at December 8, 2003 07:24 PM | TrackBack
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Although I did not get a John Kerry HIV-AIDS thing, for the longest time my personal was on the Gephardt and Edwards list group for some reason, and even the University Democrats account started to get their news from "Students 4 Edwards" without me asking for it. It is fishy Posted by: Mike at December 8, 2003 11:56 PMI've been on the Gephardt and Edwards email lists despite never asking to be added. I haven't cancelled them because I occationally like to read what they're saying, but needless to say I support Howard Dean. I'm not too worried about how it happened. My guess is the campaigns got the email from my blog, but it could also be from one of the many liberal organizations who's email list I'm on. I'm not going to sweat it. I try not to get too worked up about spam emails, because if I did I'd probably go nuts, so I just don't. Heh. Posted by: ByronUT at December 9, 2003 12:45 AMNothing here, not that I've signed up for any gay advocacy group lists. I'm purely Dean campaign, ACLU, and the Sierra Club when it comes to e-mail lists. Additionally, I hate organizations that equate HIV/AIDS with gay advocacy. I think they're separate issues that must be addressed separately. I actually e-mailed the Gephardt campaign explaining why AIDS in Africa and needle exchange programs didn't belong on the GLBT page. According to the read receipt I got back, someone read it, but I got no reply and the site remained unchanged for months. Finally (as I check now) they've separated it properly. Posted by: DavidS at December 9, 2003 02:15 AMAgreed. It's one thing to tap into an advocacy's group's email list. It's another thing to make a phantom connection between AIDS and gays. I mean, let's just say I'd be pissed off pretty royally if I were linked to John Kerry's platform on herpes (presumably) because I am a heterosexual. Posted by: Jim D at December 9, 2003 05:08 AMThen again, I guess it's context and connotation, I guess. If I got an e-mail from Kerry about a "fatherhood initiative" or whatever, I suppose I would not be taken aback. Sorry if I went a little nutsy. Posted by: Jim D at December 9, 2003 05:12 AMJust wanted to comment on the whole AIDS/homosexual thing. I think the entire stigma being associated with AIDS (the ploy that it is somehow ONLY found in the male homosexual population at the very least continually correlated with it) is still quite rampant. When I did my undergrad studies I picked a study regarding "homophobia". I use the quotes only b/c phobias are not meant to be a shield/catch all for bigotry. To be clearer, it isn't a true phobia if you go by the DSM-V criterion which gives a pretty good outline of phobias (all kinds).
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