{"id":375,"date":"2006-05-11T11:22:12","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T16:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=375"},"modified":"2006-05-11T11:30:43","modified_gmt":"2006-05-11T16:30:43","slug":"this-spam-smells-like-pork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"This Spam Smells Like Pork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the what-the-heck dept.  I got what seems like a bulk (spam) email supposedly from Congressman John F. Tierney.  I certainly never signed up for anything like this.  I may have given this email address (this was sent to a private addr, not available on this site) to the Gov&#8217;t when getting my driver&#8217;s license or paying the local taxes, but it seems insane to think that a Congressman would have the nerve to spam all residents like this.  Furthermore, I moved away and have not been a resident of the People&#8217;s Republic of Massachusetts since October of 2000.  If you&#8217;re going to keep a list of residents, and if you&#8217;re then going to use that list to send bulk email that would be better aimed at your loyal base, then the very <em>least<\/em> you can do is clean out the list once in a while? <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been a fan of passing laws to fight spam, but I am of the opinion that lawmakers <em>shouldn&#8217;t join in and make it worse<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Could someone be this clueless?  <\/p>\n<p>Bonus question: Who paid for this?<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"images\/tierney_spammer.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/tierney_spammer_thumb.gif\"\/><br \/><small>Clickie for the full view.<\/small><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I take on some blame for being stupid enough to volunteer my email to the Gov&#8217;t in the first place.  I&#8217;m sure I could have left it blank or used a bogus address.  But still.  Good greif.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed this halfway down:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/tierney_gas.gif\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>No, gas prices aren&#8217;t hurting my technology company too badly. Now <em>taxes<\/em>, on the other hand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the what-the-heck dept. I got what seems like a bulk (spam) email supposedly from Congressman John F. Tierney. I certainly never signed up for anything like this. I may have given this email address (this was sent to a private addr, not available on this site) to the Gov&#8217;t when getting my driver&#8217;s license [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}