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Title: White House Passes Blame For Unsolicited E-Mails
Post by: TheSarge on August 16, 2009, 08:09:35 PM
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The White House for the first time Sunday seemed to acknowledge that people across the country received unsolicited e-mails from the administration last week about health care reform, suggesting the problem is with third-party groups that placed the recipients' names on the distribution list.

In a written statement released exclusively to FOX News, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said the White House hopes those who received the e-mails without signing up for them were not "inconvenienced" by the messages.

"The White House e-mail list is made up of e-mail addresses obtained solely through the White House Web site. The White House doesn't purchase, upload or merge from any other list, again, all e-mails come from the White House Web site as we have no interest in e-mailing anyone who does not want to receive an e-mail," the statement said. "If an individual received the e-mail because someone else or a group signed them up or forwarded the e-mail, we hope they were not too inconvenienced."

The White House previously would not answer questions on how the e-mails landed unsolicited in so many inboxes. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Thursday said he couldn't give an answer until he saw who received the e-mails because he doesn't have "omnipotent clarity."

Yet the White House ignored repeated offers from FOX News to share with the administration such e-mail addresses, to help determine how the recipients ended up on the White House distribution list.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/16/white-house-e-mail/
Title: Re: White House Passes Blame For Unsolicited E-Mails
Post by: thundley4 on August 16, 2009, 08:16:57 PM
I thought sending spam was illegal and could result in fines and jail time?  :evillaugh:
Title: Re: White House Passes Blame For Unsolicited E-Mails
Post by: Chris_ on August 16, 2009, 08:20:59 PM
Where do I report them? :whatever:
Title: Re: White House Passes Blame For Unsolicited E-Mails
Post by: Rebel on August 16, 2009, 08:23:33 PM
The e-mail they "say" they don't know anything about:

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,32262.0.html

Rustybayonet received this and was fuming.
Title: Re: White House Passes Blame For Unsolicited E-Mails
Post by: Chris_ on August 16, 2009, 08:24:23 PM
Where do I report them? :whatever:

flag@whitehouse.gov
Title: Re: White House Passes Blame For Unsolicited E-Mails
Post by: Chris_ on August 16, 2009, 08:41:38 PM
Thank you very much
Title: Re: White House Passes Blame For Unsolicited E-Mails
Post by: Chris_ on August 16, 2009, 08:47:14 PM
Thank you very much

Just doing my part.

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Title: Re: White House Passes Blame For Unsolicited E-Mails
Post by: Airwolf on August 16, 2009, 10:04:47 PM
What a steaming pile of horse shit. That lie wouldn't even past muster with a seven year old.
Title: Re: White House Passes Blame For Unsolicited E-Mails
Post by: RightCoast on August 16, 2009, 11:22:31 PM
Blame is the only buck that barack will pass.
Title: Re: White House Passes Blame For Unsolicited E-Mails
Post by: seabelle on August 17, 2009, 06:43:43 AM
 :bs:

They still didn't answer the question WHERE they got the addresses.  Which could be very illegal.  Thank goodness for Fox News and FOIA, but they should push this further.

Did they use a government list like DMV or the IRS ?  Did they use taxpayer money to "buy" an email list from any non-profit groups that you may have donated to online?  Many of them do sell mailing lists to raise money.  Mostly to each other.

Another possibility, if you've ever clicked on WH.gov, do they grab your cookie ? 
Title: Re: White House Passes Blame For Unsolicited E-Mails
Post by: zeitgeist on August 17, 2009, 06:50:20 AM
flag@whitehouse.gov

Yeah-butt, I thought that was for emails from Hillary, you know, the ones that smell a little fishy?? :naughty:

Me, I send spam here....[it actually seems to work, no repeat offenders]

SPAM@UCE.GOV

As Bart Simpson said, spread the wealth....

 :evillaugh:

Title: Re: White House Passes Blame For Unsolicited E-Mails
Post by: thundley4 on August 17, 2009, 06:51:59 AM
They used the list of addresses that were reported to Flag.  Those were the people needing attitude adjustment. It also let those racist, anti-government, right wingers that the White House knew who they were.  :fuelfire:
Title: Re: White House Passes Blame For Unsolicited E-Mails
Post by: Crazy Horse on August 17, 2009, 07:23:09 AM
They used the list of addresses that were reported to Flag.  Those were the people needing attitude adjustment. It also let those racist, anti-government, right wingers that the White House knew who they were.  :fuelfire:

A lot of truth to that statement
Title: Re: White House Passes Blame For Unsolicited E-Mails
Post by: thundley4 on August 17, 2009, 07:28:54 AM
A lot of truth to that statement

The timing of Axelrod's email is suspect, with regards to people being report to the White house.
Title: Re: White House Passes Blame For Unsolicited E-Mails
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 17, 2009, 08:41:08 AM
Honestly, this is the most stupid trumped-up controversy I have seen in ages, it embarasses me every time someone on our side tries to make a big deal out of it.  If you have an email account and actually use it for posting comments on any public boards, or enroll in any kind of email alert from any even-half-assed semi-political group, the address will eventually get harvested by a 'bot and given to other partisan or issue groups.  BFD.     
Title: Re: White House Passes Blame For Unsolicited E-Mails
Post by: thundley4 on August 17, 2009, 09:01:18 AM
Honestly, this is the most stupid trumped-up controversy I have seen in ages, it embarasses me every time someone on our side tries to make a big deal out of it.  If you have an email account and actually use it for posting comments on any public boards, or enroll in any kind of email alert from any even-half-assed semi-political group, the address will eventually get harvested by a 'bot and given to other partisan or issue groups.  BFD.     

Spamming is still illegal.  If everything about this was above board and legit, then FNC would not have had to file a FOIA, and the White House would have released their methods and lists.
Title: Re: White House Passes Blame For Unsolicited E-Mails
Post by: docstew on August 17, 2009, 10:18:21 AM
Spamming is still illegal.  If everything about this was above board and legit, then FNC would not have had to file a FOIA, and the White House would have released their methods and lists.

Guess we can just add this to the ever-growing list of crimes committed by members of the 0ministration.
Title: Re: White House Passes Blame For Unsolicited E-Mails
Post by: seabelle on August 17, 2009, 12:39:29 PM
They used the list of addresses that were reported to Flag.  Those were the people needing attitude adjustment. It also let those racist, anti-government, right wingers that the White House knew who they were.  :fuelfire:

Yep, that has to be it. An enemy email harvest   :cheersmate:
Title: Re: White House Passes Blame For Unsolicited E-Mails
Post by: zeitgeist on August 17, 2009, 01:13:51 PM
First they harvest email, next they'll harvest organs.