Thank God for Fox News...White House will change e-mail rules

[Mistermj]

White House will change e-mail rules

he 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 [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]website[/COLOR][/COLOR]. 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.”

The complaints concerned a 1,500-word e-mail sent Thursday in the name of White House senior adviser David Axelrod, including “8 common myths about [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]health [COLOR=blue ! important]insurance[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] reform.” The e-mail mimicked the style of chain e-mails attacking President Barack Obama’s health-reform plan. The subject line: “Something worth forwarding.”

The White House had sent other e-mails to the list without complaint.

Fox News’ Major Garrett had a lengthy exchange about the matter with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs at the televised briefing on Thursday.

Garrett said: “[F]olks have emailed me … [who] would like to know how they get an e-mail from the White House when they have never asked for one.”

Gibbs replied: “I'd have to look and see.”

Later, when Gibbs was asked whether public opinion would influence the administration’s Afghanistan policy, he quipped: “We're e-mailing Major's list.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26169.html#ixzz0ORuW4qSV
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[Mistermj]

More crap from the past...they've been doing this all along.
Denver reporters fed up with Obama tactics....who is this guy? :think2:

Obama camp adds media to supporters list
Posted 11/1/2008 4:37 PM PDT on 9news.com


The $5 in my pocket is to buy dinner. I won’t send it to Barack Obama. No matter how many times he asks.
To be clear, I won’t send any money to John McCain either or any other candidate for that matter. Doing so would be a violation of my principles as a journalist (and I need it for dinner).
More than a handful of us at 9NEWS have questioned why, in addition to press releases from the campaign (which we welcome), we also receive daily appeals for campaign cash that thank us for our “support” of Obama.
It turns out, when a member of the media reserves space for a camera and live truck at an Obama event, the campaign’s website automatically adds that journalist’s e-mail to fundraising lists. (If you’re asking, is that how it usually works? In my experience covering campaigns, the answer is no.)
A recent e-mail, signed simply “Barack”, informed me that “This campaign is in your hands.”
Geez, I hope not. I went to the grocery store this week and forgot to get almost half the things on my mental list. I can only imagine how badly I would handle a campaign.
“Thank you for everything you’re doing,” the e-mail concluded.
Umm, thanks. I guess.
We repeatedly asked the Obama campaign for an on-the-record explanation and await a response.
In the meantime, we confirmed that Obama’s website uses journalists’ e-mail addresses for fundraising by signing up our newsroom pumpkin named “Coraline” to cover Saturday’s Obama event in Pueblo. (I think someone sent us the pumpkin to promote a store, or a movie, or something else, who knows.)
Coraline the Pumpkin was thanked for her support and asked for cash within 24 hours. (Coraline did not make a donation.)
We checked with the McCain campaign to see if it considers journalists who cover the campaign to be “supporters.”
“We have better things to do than hit journalists up for money,” said McCain spokesman Tom Kise.
For the record, I receive dozens of e-mail press releases from the McCain campaign each week and no fundraising e-mails thanking me for my “support.”
Another e-mail from this past week from Michelle Obama asked me to “take a minute to remember why you joined this movement, then please make a donation of $5 or more today.”
Funny, I don’t recall joining the movement. I think I just signed up to cover a campaign event.

http://www.9news.com/life/community...4cfa-abd3-53f4ac118be2&sid=sitelife.9news.com

 

[Willie99]

now the White House occupants are spamming too, geez

 

[Mistermj]

Another really bad week for Obama and crew.

First the health care plan is bitch slapped by Palin, Beck and Rush.

I'll bet that REALLY pisses them off...3 of the people they despise the most rather easily hoist them on their own petard.


Then Fox news and Major Garrett bust their ass with illegal spamming and collection of information on citizens.

These guys are doing more backpedaling than an NFL cornerback lately...d1g1t @)

To top it off...KOS and the netroots are throwing up their hands and calling Obama a coward for not pounding his agenda through.

That sure didn't take long...Obama's political capital...pffffftttt...he gone.

 

[barman]

Wow...so The White House email subscription service made the same mistake made by thousands of online commercial businesses.

Good news that they're taking proactive steps to modify it.


Meanwhile, who in here is actually Sending emails to The White House for whatever reason? Not me, man.

 

[wolfie_cr]

"thank god for fox news" .....there are so many things wrong with such a short sentence

btw the White House is useless handling emails...

examples

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/04/bush-lost-e-mails.ars


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/11/AR2007041102167.html

(oops we bypassed federal law.......sorry)

more fun examples of their stupidity

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/07/18/nyt.markoff/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9932956-7.html

 

[Mistermj]

Obama Shuts Email Tip List
By AMY SCHATZ
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125055822577138933.html

WASHINGTON -- The White House on Monday shut down an email account set up to collect tips from Americans on "fishy" claims about President Barack Obama's health-care plan, as congressional Republicans raised new concerns about why some Americans received an unsolicited email from the White House last week.

The White House shut down an email account "flag(at)whitehouse.gov" as congressional Republicans and bloggers continued to raise questions about why Obama officials were collecting negative statements made by ordinary Americans about the president's health care plan and what the administration was planning to do with the information it gathered.

On Monday, California Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, asked the White House to clarify what it plans to do with the "fishy" information collected, raising concerns about "the potentially chilling effect the White House's request...may have on Free Speech rights."

A White House spokesman didn't immediately respond to requests for comment about Mr. Issa's letter.

The White House's decision to pull the plug on its email tip list came as officials there also announced changes to its email policy designed to prevent advocacy groups from signing people up for White House emails without explicit permission.

Last week, the White House sent out a mass email from senior presidential adviser David Axelrod that sought to address concerns raised about the proposed health insurance overhaul plan. Mr. Axelrod urged recipients to forward the message to friends and family to combat similar emails sent by opponents of the health care plan. Some recipients of the emails complained about getting spammed by the White House email since they had not signed up to receive messages.

Mr. Issa also asked the White House to provide information by Aug. 31 about how it compiled the list used to send out the mass email.

:cripwalk:

Wow...not only are they in full retreat...they threw down their rifles and ran like little girls.

LMAO...excellent. A total bitch slap for these corrupt bastards.

 

[barman]

They got the names they needed, because you know the Real TroubleMakers got reported right in that first couple weeks.

Win Win

 

[Legend-I-Aint]

They got the names they needed, because you know the Real TroubleMakers got reported right in that first couple weeks.

Win Win

Did you report me Barman? I been sleeping with one eye open.<<

 

[barman]

No reporting from me.

I remain confident The Good Guys outnumber those who have not converted.

So I patiently plod along, helping change brains one at a time (or from time to time in bulk when I get printed somewhere)

 

[Dave007inVegas]

No reporting from me.

I remain confident The Good Guys outnumber those who have not converted.

So I patiently plod along, helping change brains one at a time (or from time to time in bulk when I get printed somewhere)

And you’re doing a fine job...

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 42% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 38% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent.

 

[barman]

Can't Verify It Yet

But pretty sure the remaining 20% are on Our Side most days but they just don't make a big deal out of it.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Can't Verify It Yet

But pretty sure the remaining 20% are on Our Side most days but they just don't make a big deal out of it.

:lol: If you do, be sure to let us know. :grandmais

 

[mplastered]

Did you report me Barman? I been sleeping with one eye open.<<

I'm sure he reported his girl Sarah within minutes after hearing of the web site.

 

[barman]

MPLAS, your tease is noted, but even a moment's cursory thought has any of us realize that in fact that's EXACTLY what likely thousands...maybe even tens of thousands of emails received during the short couple weeks of this flawed project contained.

How many people process those emails? 50? 100?

So you got 100 employees dutifully downloading and opening these thousands and thousands of emails flowing in 24/7. And they're reading "Here's the name of the person I've heard give the worst lies about Obama's health care proposals!" and then they have to open a hyperlink and there's a big giant spoof Sarah P in a bikini waving some kind of sign with a cartoon baby draped over her shoulder.

hahahahaha

the first couple times

And then it just goes on and on and on and on

And then there's the tens of thousands....or hell, probably hundreds of thousands of Guys Who Think They're Hilarious (you know who you are)

And they're sending in lists of all the people who worked at the company where they were last discharged.

Or they're sending in all the names of the neighbors who won't mow their grass the right length.

Or their ex-wives and their ex-wives new boyfriends.

on and on and on and on

And after a couple weeks, the WH has received two million emails with maybe about three hundred that actually have any kind of useful information about people who are honestly distorting the WH health care proposals. And of course they can absolutely nothing about those few hundred.

And suddenly someone comes into the morning staff meeting and asks, "What the fuck are we doing here?"