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I received an email from Wes Clark's campaign, even though I never signed up indicating I want such email. The email contained embedded HTML with links to trk.emsemail, and images from kinerta.com. It appears that Kintera is hosting the web site, and emsemail is generating the email.

Looking at the source header of the email, I found Return-Path: . The whois database shows that emsemail1.com is registered to:

Registrant:
   Domain Administrator
   PO Box 11478
   Delray Beach, FL 33483
   US

Registrar: DOTSTER Domain Name: EMSEMAIL1.COM Created on: 24-OCT-03 Expires on: 24-OCT-04 Last Updated on: 27-OCT-03

Administrative, Technical Contact: Administrator, Domain EMSEMAIL1.COMrZUmsM@privacypost.com PO Box 11478 Delray Beach, FL 33483 US 561-658-0833

Domain servers in listed order: NS1.EMSEMAIL1.COM NS2.EMSEMAIL1.COM

End of Whois Information

Search Google for EMSEMAIL, the first returns are about receiving spam from EMSEMAIL. So, Wes Clark's team is using a known spammer to send his message, even though his message complies with the CanSpam Act.

If you receive the email from Clark's team, I would not recommend clicking on any of the hyperlinks. If you do, there is tracking information encoded that is sent to the known spammer. They then know your email id is valid, and will continue to spam you. The images are pulled from Kintera, and do not appear to have tracking information.

What is annoying is that your option to be taken off of the list appears at the bottom. You have to send a letter via US Postal Service. This is stupid. They spam you, and you have to take time to write a letter, buy a stamp, and put it in the snail mail. you just gotta love the CanSpam Act.