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The fact that this private company SENT the spam e-mails does not answer the question of HOW it got addresses which came into the White House and were NOT SUPPOSED TO BE GATHERED. How stupid are these clowns in the White House? How stupid do they think we are?

I got these emails, in the full header it showed Govdelivery as the sender, but you are right it does not say how they got the address's as I had set up a new account just to email flag@whitehouse.gov and within a few days was receiving emails.

[Altera]

Data from gawker.com - August 14, 2009.

http://gawker.com/5337565/everything-you-need-to-know-about-obamas-spam+gate

“Everything You Need to Know About Obama’s Spam-Gate”

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“This email came from servers owned by GovDelivery, a St. Paul, Minn., firm that describes itself as “the world’s leading provider of government-to-citizen communication solutions,” and appears to have been contracted by the White House to manage its email blasts. The “account code” is “USEOPWH”—U.S. Executive Office of the President, White House. We called GovDelivery and spoke to CEO Scott Burns, who declined to confirm or deny that his company works with the White House, but said “you’ve obviously got the header information for that email, so draw whatever inference from that you will.”

We’ll take that as a yes. And many of the readers who claim to be spam victims provided identical header info. So we’re confident that people who at least believe they never signed up for White House emails got Axelrod’s.

How does the White House gather its email list? Burns said GovDelivery provides a platform for sending out mass emails, but that “the list acquisition strategy in not in our control.”

“We give clients tools to make it easier to sign up for things from their web site,” Burns said. GovDelivery’s platform is, by default, opt-in—meaning that only people who have signed up get the emails. “But clients can also bring their own lists into the system. When someone buys our platform, it’s an opt-in system. But the judgment is the client’s if they want to add other addresses or lists.” In other words, GovDelivery doesn’t control who the emails go to, and if the White House wanted to add addresses of people who didn’t sign up, it could have done so.

“There are a couple theories as to what’s going on here.”

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A - No, GovDelivery does not offer any email lists for free or for sale to its clients and does not provide any data mining services. - Clients are responsible for building their own contact lists using tools provided by GovDelivery or using other means for gathering contact information from interested citizens.
Ergo,the White House provided the email addys.