Garth Turner Admits to Spamming Halton Voters
October 23, 2007 · By Greg Farries
Garth just doesn’t know when to stop talking. Take this exchange in Steve Janke’s on election databases:
As for email blasts for fundraising and related political activities, the list used was compiled from people who contacted me for political purposes, not from CIMS, and blasted by a private contractor. Were there some Conservative supporters on that list? You bet, and they howled. Fortunately, most were smart enough to find the auto-delete feature.
Sending unsolicited emails to internet users is the very definition of spamming…
I got one of those spams from Turner…
http://canadaconservative.blog.....-oops.html
Respectfully, Greg, I disagree. Compiling a list of email addresses who had contacted Garth for a political reason would provide reasonable grounds for otherwise unsolicited communication.
An analogous situtation would be unsolicited telephone calls from businesses who have a prior business relationship with a particular person. Perhaps they entered a contest, sent an email to ask for more information, took out a loan with the business, or bought some furniture. Any of these reasons would be sufficient to exempt them from having to abide by the proposed national ‘do not call registry’. It would be the customer’s responsibility to inform the business that they do not wish to receive further communications.
‘Spam’ implies emails sent to people who have no prior contact with Garth (no comments on his blog, no political emails for or against his positions, no donations, etc.) If this is what happened, then I’ll gladly agree it was spam.
Big deal! Complaining about spam is absurd. Taxes should not be spent making the lives of online computer users more comfortable.
For once, I agree with Garth Turner: “most were smart enough to find the auto-delete feature.”