Posted on 08/16/2009 6:02:00 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
The White House said Sunday night that it will change its e-mail sign-up procedures after some recipients of a health-care e-mail complained that they had not asked to receive updates.
“We are implementing measures to make subscribing to e-mails clearer, including preventing advocacy organizations from signing people up to our lists without their permission when they deliver petition signatures and other messages on individual’s behalf,” spokesman Nick Shapiro said in a statement Sunday night.
After a few such recipients appeared on Fox News, White House officials determined that advocacy groups on the right or left could have sent in the names without the person knowing it.
For instance, a group might have sent WhiteHouse.gov a comment from each person who had signed an online petition, and the White House would have captured the e-mail address.
FoxNews.com reported: “FOX News has offered the White House examples of what hundreds of people say were unsolicited e-mails.”
Shapiro said in the statement: “The White House e-mail list is made up of e-mail addresses obtained solely through the White House website. The White House doesn't purchase, upload or merge from any other list. … [A]ll e-mails come from the White House website as we have no interest in emailing anyone who does not want to receive an email.
“If an individual received the e-mail because someone else or a group signed them up or forwarded the email, we hope they were not too inconvenienced. Further, we suggest that they unsubscribe from the list by clicking the link at the bottom of the e-mail or tell whomever forwarded it to them not to forward such information anymore.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
The Politico’s spin on the story.
great NOW THAT they have all the email addresses. That is a permanent file for them.
Translation: WH will retain its “enemies list” database, but will be more careful about using it for frivolous political spam.
These knuckleheads want to run healthcare and they can’t even run emails about healthcare.
BWAHAHAHA!
This is how things work now. They will push the envelope, deny it if caught, then make a "small correction" to improve things, expecting full credit. We have to be so vigilent.
The Politico comments.
Isn’t it illegal to conduct partisan politics out of the White House? I thought that was one of the complaints that the Dems had about the Bush Admin at one point.
Rush said the other day that the WH by law has to retain those email correspondences, and that eventually, sometime after the Obozo has left office, that they will become public, perhaps at Obummer’s Prezidunce-ial Library.
It is.
I wish these communist SOB's would stick to robbing us blind and eating away at our liberty.
Spamming dissenters with socialist propaganda is way over the top.
Back in the day, these were referred to as “Enemies Lists...”
They used to be used against other POLITICIANS, but now they’re used against everyday American Citizens who disagree with this Administration!
“Early in Clinton’s first term, staffers improperly squirreled away more than 400 FBI files on prominent Republicans. This give the Clintons access to confidential information on key Republicans they viewed as political threats.”
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/02/18/obamas-enemies-list
Guess Major Garrett gave them something ‘more productive’ to do ;)
You said — The Politico’s spin on the story.
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Having dealt with e-mail lists and understanding the problems that can come from others ending up signing a person up and with people complaining about “spam e-mail” — it actually sounds more like the White House (at least this administration) is getting an early lesson in managing e-mail lists and how to *confirm* when someone actually wants on an e-mail list.
That’s something to be done by a confirmation e-mail in which — if — someone does not respond to the e-mail (in which it is explained what that means) — that they will not be placed on the e-mailing list.
It’s something that people who do manage “responsible e-mail lists” do all the time.
The White House, and this current administration sounds like they didn’t know how to handle it in the first place and that they are finally learning how to manage an e-mail list... LOL...
Nixon’s ‘Enemies List’ had private citizens, not just pols.
Remember albore’s no controlling legal authority?
It sounds like the White House should have gotten a professional to manage their e-mail list in the first place... LOL...
Makes me wonder the TRUE reason the ‘cyber-CZAR’ stepped down.
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